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THE 


HISTORICAL READER; 

CONTAINING 

“ THE LATE WAR 

BETWEEN THE 

UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN* 

From June , 1812, to February , 1815. 

WRITTEN IN THE ANCIENT HISTORICAL STYL$, 
ALTERED AND ADAPTED 

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS 

THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATUS, 

>*» X)w0t- , O' 

BY GILBERT J. HUNT. 

« Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought* 

« And teach the young idea how to shoot.” 

THIRD EDITION. 

With improvements by the author. 

PUBLISHED BY DAVID LONGWORTII. 
No. 11 Park. 


X819- 




Southern District of NeW-York, ss. 

B E it remembered, that on the thirty first day cu 
October, in the forty second year of the Independent: 
of the United States of America, G. J. Hunt, of the 
said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a 
book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the 
words and figures following, to wit : « The Historical 
Header; containing the late war between the United 
States and Great Britain, from June 1812, to February 
1815, written in the Ancient Historical style,” altered 
and adapted for the use of schools throughout the 
United States, by G. J. Hunt. 


“ Delightful task, to rear the tender thought, 

“ And teach the young idea how to shoot.” 

In Conformity to the act of the congress of the Uni¬ 
ted States, entitled, “an act for the encouragement of 
learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and 
books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, 
during the time therein mentioned.” And also to an 
act, entitled “an act supplementary to an act: entitled 
an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing 
the copies of maps, charts, and books to the author! 
and proprietors °f such copies, during the times therein 
mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the 

^ther printsT 2, e “ graving > and etchin S ^orical and 


JAMES DILL, Cleric of the 
Southern District of N. York 


i 


PREFACE. 


T r T'^ advantages which the introduction of thr* 
work into our seminaries of education would be likely— 
to produce are many and obvious : 

1. I he author haying adopted for th n model of his 
style the phraseology; of the best of books, remarkable 
for its simplicity and strength, the young pupil will ac-. 
quire, with the knowledge of reading, a love for th 1 
manner in which the great truths of Divine Revelation 
ai v * conveyed to — i ...mi - 

to him to study the Holy.Scriptures.. 

^ Ail the circumstances related iii this work are 
true : they are recent, being within the recollection 
of the present generation ; they form a very important 
pari in the history of our country, and will be read 
w»th pride and pleasure by every oue of ouryoangmen 
in whose bosom may glow the sentiments of patriotism 
and piety. 

3. The most prominent virtues of the heroes who 
produced the events here treated of, are held up in, 
such a manner as to inspire in the youthful mind a, 
love for the country they defended, ami a spiiit'of 
honorable emulation, which may be highly advanta¬ 
geous to that country whenever it shall be necessary to 
call it into exercise. 

4. Although a vein of morality runs through the 
work, the sentiments have not the smallest bearing o?k 
the particular tenets of any religious sect, but are cal¬ 
culated to be read by. all persons, of whatever denomi¬ 
nation, who love virtue, valor, and freedom. 

5. The facts described are related in so clear an t. 
concise a way as without much effort on the part of 
the pupil, will easily fasten themselves on his memory. 

These are some amongst other reasons which have 
hfeitced the author to recommend Ids little work..to-.' 


PREFACE. 


4 

tettchers of youth throughout the United States, as 
well as fathers of families, and he does it in the confi¬ 
dent hope, that it will prove useful in accelerating the 
progress of knowledge, and in awakening and cherish¬ 
ing in the minds of his young countrymen those prin¬ 
ciples of virtue with which he has been careful that i£ 
should be interwoven. 

Having received the universal approbation of men 
of judgment, he only thinks it necessary to give the 
following letters from Dr. S. L. Mitchill, and Mr. 
Picket. 

G. J. HUNT. 

ifew-Torlc, June 13 , 1 $ 17 * 

Sir, 

I had noticed your work on the late war long 
before I had the pleasure of your acquaintance. It 
seems to be a plain and popular mode of exhibiting the 
transactions of which it treats. 

One of the defects in the literature of our country 
i^that of good historians. That class of our citizens 
which is called to act, shows unparalleled atchievement 
and onterprize. The other sections, to whom is allot¬ 
ted the business of narrating and recording events, are. 
not so'far advanced, the reason is evident; there must 
he deeds to describe and perpetuate, before there can be 
historians. Jn process of time, writers duly qualified, 
will make their appearance. 

Your Chronicle of events deserves to be mentioned 
in the list of useful publications. It will answer as a 
document of constant and ready reference. The re¬ 
ception of it into schools, will render familiar to chil¬ 
dren the chief actions in the contest, and teach them, at 
the same time, to respect their country and its institu- 
ions. 

It seems to me one of the best attempts to imitate 
the biblical style ; and if trie perusal of it can induce 
yoimgi persons to relish and love the sacred books 


PREFACE. 


v 


whose language you have imitated, it will be the strougv 
est of all recommendations. 

Your’s respectfully. 

SAMUEL L. MITCHILL. 

Mr. G. J. Hunt. 

-V 

Academy, New-York, July 8, 1817”. 

Str, 

I have examined the copy^ and concur in the 
recommendation of the publication of your “ ITi ' uv¬ 
eal Reader, with the alterations and improvements, for 
the Use of Schools. I sincerely hope that your exertions 
may be crowned with success. 

Yours respectfully, 

Mr. G. J. Hunt. W. PICKET. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS. 


Gil-Vr I — Pr’xidaU't .Uess^e—C.-t-.'ds of the 
War, Sfc. 

CHAP. II —Report of the Comm'Ucc— Decla¬ 
ration of war, 

CHAP. Ul—Reception of the Declaration of 


li ar in Great Hritain. 1 ■* 

CHAP. 1V —John Henry— Elijah Parish. »L> 

CIIAP. V —American Army—Militia—Navy— 
British Navy—Rogers’ fu st cruise—cap¬ 
ture of the Nautilus—removal of aliens 
beyond tide-water. 

QIIAP. VI— Hull’s expedition. 23 

CHAP. VII— Hull’s trial and pardon—Capture. 

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table of contents. 

V 

CHAP. VIII —Capture of the Gurriere , 65/ £/«e 

United States’ frigate Constitution. 30 

CHAP. IX —Attach on Sackett’s Harbour — af¬ 
fair of Ogdeng burgh—British drove from 
St. Reg is o 3 3 

CHAP. X —Battle of Queenstown. 36 - 

CHAP. XT — Gen. Smythe succeeds Gen. Van 
Rensselaer—his attempts to cross the Ni¬ 
agara , and failure — causes. 39 

CHAP. XII —Capture of the British Sloop of 

war , Frolic. 41 

CH AP. XIII— Capture qf thr Macedonian. 43 

CHAPi a 5 V —Affairs in the north — s'dr})ltsh/,§ 

-—battle of Frenchtown —- capture of 

G§n. Win Chester’s army—•massacre of 
dfff prisoners. 47 

CH AT” a v —Capture of the British frigate Java 52 
CIIAP- XVI— Com. Rogers return from. a. se¬ 
cond cruise—the Gen. Armstrong and a 
British frigate — privateering. 56 - 

CHAP. XVII —Capture of Ogdensburgh 60 

CH AP. XVIII— Capture of the Peacock 62 

CHAP. XIX —Capture of Little York. 66 

CHAP. XX —Sketches ofthe History of America. 74 
CAIIP. XXI —Depredations in. the Chesapeake 
— Jlavre-de-Grrige. burnt—attack on Cm 
ny ' Island ,— Hampton taken by the British 
— ojj'ragcs. gp ■ 

CHAP. XXII —Bayard and Gallatin sail for < v*. , 

Petersburgh-—the British compelled to a- 
bandon the siege o f fort Meigs. 82 

CHAP. XXIII —Surrender of forts George and 
Erie to the America,ns—-General ■ Brown 
drives the Britishfrom Sackctt’s Harbor 84 
CHAP. XXI V—Capture of the Chesapeake. ' 8 f 
CHAP. XXV —Capture of Col. Boerstler and 

Major Chapin, with their command. 92 

CHAP. X XVI -Capture of Fort Schfowei c.nd 

Black Rock - 95 


TALLE OF CONTENTS *]. 

CHAP. XX VI I — iff firs cm Lake Ontario . 9; 

CHAP. XXVIII —Affairs on Lake Champlain . 99 
CHAP. XXIX —-I lajor Croghan defeats the 

British at Fort Stephenson, 102 

ciiap. xxx — British schooner Dominica cap¬ 
tured — U. S. brig Argus captured,—Boxer 
tif Enter prize* ICC 

CHAP. XX\[— 'Capture of the British fleet on 

L ike Erie \<jj 

C HAP. XXXI I— fj.pt ire of Malden and De¬ 
troit. bp Ciea. Harrison . ' 114 

CHAP. XXXIH— B title of the Thames. 118 

CHAP. XXXHe-rrm* with the Creeks. 123 

CHAP. XXXV— Continuation of the Creek 

War — den. Jackson"s victory over them. 126 
CHAP. XXXVI —Flan of attack on Montreal 

defeated. 131 

CHAP. XXXVII —Newark burnt—Fort George 
evacuated—Niagara frontier laid waste 
— Buffalo burnt. 135 

CHAP. XXXVIII —Cruise of the Essex. 138 

CHAP. XXXIX —Capture of the Frolic, by the 
British frigate Orpheus—capture of the 
L’Epervier, bn the Peacock—-capture of 
the Reindeer, by the Wasp, capt. B&kely 
—the Avon captured and sunk. 143 

CHAP. XL —Breaking up of the cantonments at 

French Mills—battle of Chippawa. 146 

CHAP. XLI —Battle of Bridgewater. 150 

CHAP. XL II —Assault on Fort Erie. 153 

CHAP. XLlll—Attack on Stonington, by the 

British ships of war 1 37 

CHAP. XLIV —Affairs in the Chesapeake — 
British army move towards Washington — 
prepare for battle at Btadensburgh. 1(J Q 

CHAP. XLV —Capture of Washington — sack¬ 
ing of Alexandria—death of Sir Peter 
Parker. I 162 

• CHAP. XL>Vl—J 5 ritish go against Plattsburgh ^ 


TAB] 


,E OF CONTENTS. 


—Com. TSVDohoiigh captures the British 
sL uadron on hake Champlain 

niAP VlYH —Battle of Plattsburgh. 

*Cii aP. XLVI1I —Attack on Baltimore, by the 
British army under Gen. Ross, and e 
fed under Admirals Cochrane and. Cock- 

rn \P XLIX —-Destruction of the privateer 
'Gen. Armsttong — Gen. Jackson captures 
Pensacola , a nd returns to N. Orleans. 

CHAP. L _ Steam-boats-— Fulton—-torpedoes 

kidnapping Joshua Penny. 

CH AP. LI_ Affairs in and about JS. iork. 

CH 4P’ LI1 —Affairs on the ocean 

CHAP LlII —British fleet arrives near i\. Or¬ 
leans—attacks by the British upon the army 
Gen. Jackson. 

CHAP. LIV —Grand Battle of Ncw-Orleans . 
CHAP. LY—Peace. 

Algerine War. 

Conclusion. ■ 

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225 

231 

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TFlE 


HISTORICAL READER. 


THE LATE WAR 

BETWEEN THE 

U. STATES AND G. BRITAIN, 

From 1S12 to 1815. 


CHAP. I. 

Preside Jit's Message—Causes of the War—Energetic 
Measures proposed. 

•N OW it came to pass, in the one thousand oight 
hundred and twelfth year of the Christian era, and in 
the thirty and sixth year after the people of the pro* 
vinces of Columbia had declared themselves a free and 
independent nation ; 

2 That in the sixth month of the same year, on the 
first day of the month, the chief Governor, whom the 
people had chosen to rule over the land of Columbia; 

3 Even James, whose sir-name was Madison, de¬ 
livered a written paper* to the Great SANHEDRiMt of 
the people, who were assembled together. 

4 And the name of the city where the people were 
gathered together was called a/ter the name of the chief 
captain of the land of Columbia, whose fame extendeth 
to the uttermost parts of the earth ; albeit, he had slept 
with his fathers. 

' * President's Manifesto. t Congress. 

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HISTORICAL 


5 Nevertheless, the people loved him, forasmuch 
as he wrought their deliverance from the yoke of 
tyranny in times past$ so they called the city Wash ¬ 
ington. 

G Now, when the written paper was received, the 
doors of the chambers of the Great Sanhedrim were 
closed, and a seal was put upon every man's mouth. 

7 And the counsellors of the nation, and the wise men 
thereof, ordered the written paper which James had de¬ 
livered unto them to be read aloud ; and the interpreta¬ 
tion thereof was in this wise : 

8 Lo! the lords and the princes of the kingdom of 
Britain, in the fulness of-their pride and power, have 
trampled upon the altar of Liberty, and violated the 
sanctuary thereof: 

9 Inasmuch as they hearkened not unto the voice of 
moderation, when the cry of the people of Columbia 
was, Peace ! peace ! 

10 Inasmuch as the}" permitted not the talk ships of 
Columbia to sail in peace on the waters of the mighty 
deep; saying in their hearts, Of these will we make 
spoil, and they shall be given unto the king. 

11 Inasmuch as they robbed the ships of Columbia, 
of the strong men that wrought therein, and took them 
for their own use, even as a man taketh his ox or his 
ass. 

12 Inasmuch as they kept the men stolen from the 
ships of Columbia in bondage many years, and caused 
them lo fight the battles of the king, even against their 
own brethren ! neither gave they . unto them silver or 
gold, but many stripesc 

Now the men of Columbia were not like uxtfc 


READER. 


22 

,!.• .11 oi Britain; for their backs were not hardeu- 

ii unto the whip, as were the servants of the king; 
iiieref'ore they murmured, and their murxaurings have 
been heard. 

14 Moreover, the Council of Britain sent forth a De¬ 
cree to all the nations ol the earth, sealed with the signet 
of the Prince Regent, who governed the nation in the 
name of the king Ins lather; for lo ! the king was pos*- 
messed of an evil spirit, and his son reigned in his stead. 

15 Now this Decree of the Council of Britain was 
-V grievous thing, inasmuch as it permitted not those who 
dealt in merchandize to go whithersoever diev chose, and 
to trade freely with all parts of the earth. 

lb And it fell hard upon the people of Columbia; 
for the king said unto them, Ye shall couic with your, 
vessels unto me and pay tribute, then may ye depart to 
another country. 

17 Now these things pleased the pirates aud the 
cruisers of Britain mightily, because it permitted them to 
rob the commerce of Columbia with impunity. 

18 Furthermore, have not the servants of the king 
leagued with the savages of the wilderness, and given 
unto them silver, and gold, and placed the destroying em* 
gines in their hands ? 

O 

19 Thereby stirring up the spirit of Satan within 
them, that they might spill the blood of the people of 
Columbia; even the blood of our old men, our wives,, 
and our little ones 1 

20 Thus, had Britain, iw her heart, commenced War 
against the people of Columbia, whilst they cried aloud 
for peace : and when she smote them on the one cheek 
•Ir' burned unto her the other rbse. 




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HISTORICAL 


21 Now,-therefore, shall we, the independent people 
of Columbia, sit down silently, as slaves, and bow the 
neck to Britain ? 

22 Or, shall we, like our forefathers, nobly assert our 
rights, and defend that Liberty and Independence 
which the Lord hath given unto us ? 


READER 


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CHAP. II. 

Pajjort of the Committee—Declarationfif Mat. 


OW, when there was an end made of reading the 
paper which James had written, the Sanhedrim com¬ 
muned one with another touching the matter : 

2 And they chose certain wise men from among them 
to deliberate thereon. 

3 And they commanded them to go forth from their 
presence, for that purpose, and return again on the third 
day of the same month. 

4 Now, when the third day arrived, at the eleventh 
hour of the day, they came forth and presented them¬ 
selves before the Great Sanhedrim of the people. 

5 And the chief of the wise men, whom they had 
chosen, opened his month and spake unto them after this 
manner: 

6 Behold ! day and night have we meditated upon 
the words which James hath delivered, and we are 
weary withal, for in our hearts we desired peace. 

7 But the wickedness of the kingdom of Great- 
Britain, and the cruelty of the princes thereof, towards 
tlu* peaceable inhabitants.of.the land of Columbia, may 
be likened unto the fierce lion, when he putteth his paw 
upon the innocent lamb to devour him. 

8 Nevertheless, the lamb shall. not be slain; for the 
a Lord shall be his deliverer. 

9 And if, peradventure, the people of Columbia go 

B 2 


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HISTORICAL 


not out to battle against the king, then will the manifold 
wrongs committed against them be increased tenfold, and 
they shall be as a mock and a bye-word among all nations. 

10 Moreover, the righteousness of your cause shall 
lead you to glory, and the pillars of your liberty shall 
not be shaken. 

11 Therefore, say we unto you, Gird on your swords 
and go forth to battle against the king; even against the 
strong powers of Britain; and tire Lord God of Hosts 
be with you. 

12 Now when the great Sanhedrim of the people 
heard those things which the wise men had uttered, they 
pondered them in their minds many days, and weighed 
them well; 

13 Even until the seventeenth day of the month pon¬ 
dered they in secret concerning the matter. 

14 And it was so, that on the next day they sent forth 
a Decree, making WAR upon the kingdom of Great 
Britain, and upon the servants, and upon the slaves 
thereof. 

15 And the Decree was signed with the hand writing 
of James, the chief Governor of the land of Columbia. 

16 After these things, the doors of the chambers of 
the Sanhedrim were opened. 


READER. 


15 


CHAP. III. 

Recej)tion of the Declaration of War in Great Britain 
—her friends in America—Caleb Strong — Hartford 
Convention . 


OLND it came to pass, that when the princes and the 
lords and the counsellors of Britain saw the Decree, 
their wratli was kindled, and their hearts were ready to 
burst with indignation. 

2 For, verily, said they, this insult hath overflowed 
the cup of our patience; and now will we chastise the 
impudence of these Yankees, and the people of Colum¬ 
bia shall bow before the king. 

3 Then will we rule them with a rod of iron ; and they 
shall be, unto us, hewers of wood and drawers of water. 

4 For, verily, shall we suffer these cunning Yankees 
to beard the mighty lion, with half a dozen fir-built 
frigates, the men whereof are but mercenary cowards— 
“ bastards and outlaws ? ?? 

5 Neither durst they array themselves in battle against 
the men of Britain. No ! we will sweep them from the 
face of the waters, and their name shall be heard no 
more among nations. 

6 Shall the proud conquerors of Europe not laugh to 
scorn the feeble efforts of a few unorganized soldiers, un¬ 
disciplined, and fresh from the plough, the hoe, and the 
mattock? 

7 Yea, they shall surely Adi; for they were not bred 
to fighting as were the servants of the king. 


HISTORICAL 


16 


B Their large cities, their towns, and their village* 
will we burn with consuming fire. 

9 Their oil, and their wheat, and their rye, and their 
corn, and their barley, and their rice, and their buck¬ 
wheat, and their oats, and their flax, and all the products 
of their country wall we destroy, and scatter the remnants 
thereof to the four winds of heaven. 

10 All these things, and more, will we do unto this 
fro ward people. 

11 Neither shall there be found safety for age or sex 
from the destroying swords of the soldiers of the king ; 

12 Save in those provinces and towns where dwell the 
friends of the king, for, io! said they, the king’s friends 
arc many. 

13 These will we spare ; neither will we hurt a hair 
of their heads: nor shall the savages of the wilderness 
stain the scalping-knife or the tomahawk with the blood 
of the king’s friends. 

14 Now it happened, about this time, that there were 
numbers of the inhabitants of the country of Columbia 
whose hearts yearned after the king of Britain. 

15 And with their false flattering words they led as¬ 
tray some of the friends of Columbian Liberty ; for 
their tongues were smoother than oil. 

.16 Evil machinations entered into their hearts, and 
tlie poison of their breath might be likened unto the 
deadly Bohon Upas, which rears its lofty branches in 
the barren valley of Java.* 



* Of the existence of this wonderful tree there have 
been doubts : but the reader is referred to the relation 
of P N. Foerch , who has given a satisfactory account 
.<sfit : from his men travels in its neighbourhood. 



READER. 17 

17 And they strove to dishearten the true friends of 
the great Sanhedrim ; but they prevailed not. 

- 18 'Moreover, Satan entered into the heart of one of 

the governors of the east, and he was led astray by the 
w ickedness thereof, even Caleb the Strong. 

19 Now Caleb, which in the Cherokee tongue, signi¬ 
fied an ass, liked not the decree of the great Sanhedrim, 
inasmuch as he favored the lung of Britain ; 

20 And, though willing to become a beast of burden , 
yet would he not move on account of .his very great stu¬ 
pidity. 

21 And he said unto the captains of the hosts of the 
state over which he presided, Lo ! it seemeth not meet 
unto me that ye go forth to battle agai ns tithe king. 

22 For, Lo ! are not the fighting men of Britain, in 
multitude, as the sand on the sea shore ? and shall we 
prevail against them ? 

23 Are not the mighty ships of the king spread over 
the whole face of the waters ? Is not Britain the “ bul¬ 
wark of our religion ?” 

24 Therefore, I command that ye go not out to bat¬ 
tle, but every man remain in his own house. 

25 And all the governors of the east listened unto the 

voice of Caleb. 

26 Moreover, the angel of the Lord whispered into 
the ear of Caleb, and spake unto him, saying, 

27 Ifj peradventure, thou dost refuse to obey the laws 
cf the land, the thing will not be pleasant in the sight of 

the Lord; 

28 Inasmuch as it may cause the people to rise up one 
against another, and spill the blood of their own children; 

29 And the time of warfare will be lengthened out. 
and the blood of thousands will be upon thine head. 


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HISTORICAL 


SO And Satan spake, and said unto Caleb, Fear not ; 
for if thou wilt forsake thy country, and throw off the 
paltry subterfuge of Columbian Liberty, and defy tire 
councils of the great Sanhedrim, 

31 Then shall thy name be proclaimed with the 
sound of the trumpet». ghout all the earth; and thOu 
-shalt be a prince and a ruler over this people. 

32 Now the smooth words of Satan tickled Caleb 
mightily, and he hearkened unto the counsel of the 
wicked one : 

33 Foi the good counsel given unto him was as wa~ 
ter thrown upon a rock. 

34 But when the chief governor and the great Sanhe¬ 
drim of the people saw the wickedness of Caleb, their 
hearts were moved with pity towards him and his follow¬ 
ers : yea, even those who had made a convention at the 
little town of Hartford. 

35 Neither doth the scribe desire to dwell upon the 
wickedness which came into the village of Hartford, the 
signification of the name whereof, in the vernacular 
tongue, appeareth not. 

36 For the meddling therewith is as the green pool of 
imelean waters, when a man casteth a stone therein. 


READER, 


19 


CIIAP. IV. 

John Henry—Elijah Parish 


T 

JLJ L T the children of Columbia beware of false pro¬ 
phets which come in sheep's clothing; for it is written, 
Ye shall know them by their fruits. 

2 Now it came to pass, that a certain man, whose sir- 
name was Henry, came before James, the chief go- 
vernor, and opened his mouth, and spake unto him, sav¬ 
ing, 

3 Eo! If thou wilt give unto me two score and ten 
thousand pieces of silver, then will I nnfold unto thee the 
witchcraft of Britain, that thereby thy nation may not be 
caught in her snares. 

4 And James said unto him, Verily, for the good of 
my country I will do this thing. 

5 And immediately the man Henry opened his mouth, 
a second time, and said, 

6 Lo! the lords and counsellors of Britain have 
made a covenant with me, and have promised me many 
pieces of gold if I would make a league with the pro¬ 
vinces of the east that they might favour the king; and 
long and faithfully have I laboured in their cause. 

7 But they deceived me, even as they would de¬ 
ceive the people of Columbia; for their promises are 
as the idle wind that passeth by, which no mau re- 
gardeth. 

8 And, when he had gotten the silver into his own 



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20 

hands he departed to the land of the Gauls, where he re- 
mainetli even until this day. 

9 Nevertheless, the people profitted much thereb}'; 
inasmuch as it put them upon the watch, and they guard¬ 
ed themselves against the evil accordingly. 

10 He that longeth after the interpretation of the 
deeds of Henry, let him make inquiry of those who 
acted with him—the ministers of the Hartford Con¬ 
vention. 

11 Now, there was a certain hypocrite, whose name 
was Elijah, and he was a false prophet in the east, 
and he led astray those of little understanding; more¬ 
over, he was an hireling, and preached for the sake of 
filthy lucre. 

12 And he rose up and called himself a preacher of 
the gospel, and his words were smooth, and the people 
marvelled at him; 

13 But he profaned the temple of the Lord, and he 
strove to lead his disciples into the wrong way. 

14 And many wise men turned their backs against 
him 5 nevertheless, he repented not of his sins unto this 

da y- .. 

15 Neither did the people, as Darius the Mede .did 
unto the prophet Daniel, cast him into the den of lions, 
that they might see whether the royal beast would dis¬ 
dain to devour him. 

16 But they were rejoiced that power was not given 
.unto him to command fire to come down from heaven to ■ 
consume the friends of the great Sanhedrim. 


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CHAP. V. 

American Army — Militia — Navy—British Navy — 

Rodgers’ Jirst Cruise—Capture of the U. S. brig 

Nautilus—removal of aliens beyond' tide-water. 

T 

HE whole host of the people of Columbia, who 
had been trained to war, being numbered, was about 
seven thousand fighting men.* 

2 Neither were they assembled together; but they 
were extended from the north to the south, about three 
thousand miles, t 

3 But the husbandmen, who lived under their own 
fig-trees, and lifted the arm in defence of their own 
homes, were more than seven hundred thousand, all 
mighty men of valor. 

4 Now th£ armies of the king of Britain, are they 
net numbered and written in the book of Hume, the 
scribe ? is not their name a terror to all nations ? 

5 Moreover^ the number of the strong ships of the 
peaceable inhabitants of Columbia, that moved on the 
waters of the deep, carrying therein the destroying en¬ 
gines, which vomited their thunders, was about one score : 
besides a handful of u cock-boatswith u a bit of 
striped bunting at their mast-head*” 

6 But the number of the fighting vessels of Britain 
was about one thousand one score and one, which bore 
the royal cross. 

* Standing army. 

f From District of Maine to Mobile Bay and Nci *■ 
0 leans. C 



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7 And the men of war of Britain were arrayed in 
their might against the people of the land of Columbia. 

8 Nevertheless, it came to pass, that about this time a 
strong ship of the United States, called the President, 
commanded by a skilful man whose name was Rodgers, 

9 Sailed towards the island of Britain, and went nigh 
unto it, and captured numbers of the vessels of the people 
of Britain, in their own waters; after which she returned 
in safety to the land of Columbia. 

10 And the people gave much praise to Rodgers, for 
it was a cunning thing; inasmuch as he saved many 
ships that were richly laden, so that they fell not into the 
hands of the people of Britain. 

11 Moreover, it happened about the fifteenth day of 
the seventh month, in the same year in which the decree 
of the great Sanhedrim was issued, that a certain vessel 
of the states of Columbia was environed round about by 
a multitude of the ships of the king ; 

12 And the captain thereof w r as straitened, and he 
looked around him and strove to escape : 

13 But he was entrapped and fell a prey to the vessels 
of the king; howbeit, the captain, whose name was 
Crane, tarnished not his honor thereby. 

14 And the name of the vessel of the United States 
was called Nautilus. 

15 Now, about this time, there was a law sent fortii 
from the great Sanhedrim, commanding all servants and 
subjects of the king of Britain forthwith to depart be¬ 
yond the swellings of the waters of the^reat deep; even 
two score miles. 

16 And they did so; and their friends from whom 
they were compelled to dee, mourned for them many days. 



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2a 


ciiap. vi. 

HuWs expedition—he enters Canada, and encamps at 
Sandwich—issues his Proclamation—retreats to Detroit. 

-INFOW it was known throughout the land of Columbia 
that war was declared against the kingdom of Britain. 

2 And to a certain chief captain called William, 
whose sir-name was Hull, was given in trust a band of 
more than two thousand chosen men, to go forth to bat¬ 
tle in the north. 

3 Now Hull was a man well stricken in years, and he 
had been a captain in the host of Columbia, in the days 
that tried men’s souls; even in the days of Washington. 

4 Therefore, when he appeared in the presence of the 
great Sanhedrim, they were pleased with his counte¬ 
nance, and put much faith in him.* 

5 Moreover, he was a governor in the north,f and a 
man of great wealth. 

6 And when he arrived with his army hard bv the 
Miami of the Lakes, he gat him a vessel and placed 
therein those things which were appertaining unto the 
preservation of the lives of the sick and the maimed. 

7 But, in an evil hour, the vessel was ensnared, near 
unto a strong hold,| beside a river called in the language 
of the Gauls, Detroit. 


* Oen. Hull had been to Washington and obtained an 
appointment previous to the war. 

f Michigan territory. | Malden. 



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•7 * 

8 And the army of Columbia suffered much thereby. 

9 Nevertheless, on the twelfth of the seventh month 
about the fourth watch of the night, William with his 
whole host crossed the river which is called Detroit. 

10 And he encamped his men round about the town 
of Sandwich in the province of the king. 

11 From this place, he sent forth a proclamation, 
which the great Sanhedrim had prepared for him ; and 
the wisdom thereof appeareth even unto this day. 

12 But if a man’s ass falleth into a ditch, shall the 
master suffer thereby ? if injury can be prevented, shall 
we not rather with our might endeavour to help him ? 

13 Now in the proclamation which Hull published 
abroad, he invited the people of the province of Canada to 
join themselves to the host of Columbia, who were come 
to drive the servants of the king from their borders. 

14 And it came to pass, that a great multitude flock¬ 
ed to the banners of the groat Sanhedrim. 

15 Nevertheless, they knew not that they were to be 
entrapt. ' 

16 However, it was so, that William departed from 
the province of the king, and re-crossed the river. 

17 And when the husbandmen of the province of 
Canada, who had joined the standard of Columbia, learn¬ 
ed those things, they wept bitterly; for they were left 
behind. 

18 After this William secured himself in the ,strong 
hold of Detroit$ and the eyes of the men and the wo¬ 
men of Columbia were fixed upon him. 

19 And the expectation thereof may be likened unta 
a man who hath watered well his vineyard. 



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2 i> 


CHAP. VII. 

Huffs expedition—surrender of Ms army and the whole 
Michigan Territory—his tried and pardon by the 
President—capture of Michilimackinack. 


J-v OW the host of the king were few in numbers; 
nevertheless, they came in battle array against the st&ong 
hold of William. 

2 And when he beheld them from afar, he was afraid; 
his knees smote one against another, and his heart sunk 
within him ; for, lo ! the savages of the wilderness ap¬ 
peared amongst them. 

3 And there was a rumor went throughout the camp 
of Columbia, and it bore hard upon William. 

4 Inasmuch as they said the wickedness of his heart 
was bent on giving up the strong hold to the servants of 
he king. 

5 Ilowbeit he was not taxed with drinking of the 
strong waters of Jamaica; which, when they enter into 
he head of a man, destroy his reason and make him ap¬ 
pear like unto one who hath lost his senses. 

(j And when the charge against William was made 
know n unto the soldiers of Columbia, they were grieved 
much, for they w r ere brave men, and feared nought. 

7 So the officers communed one with another touch- 
ng the tiling; but they wist not what to do. 

8 .And they fain would have done violence unto AVil- 
liarr, that they might have been enabled tp pour forth 
their thunders against the approaching host of Britain; 
which htihad forbidden to be done. 



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9 Moreover, the names of these valiant men, who 
were compelled to weep before the cowardice of William, 
are they not recorded in the bosom of every friend of Co¬ 
lumbian liberty.* 

10 And it was about the sixteenth of the eighth month 
when the servants of the king appeared before the strong 
hold of Detroit. 

11 And the name of the chief captain of the provin¬ 
ces of Canada, that came against the strong hold, was 
Brock, whose whole force was about seven hundred sol¬ 
diers of the king, and as many savages. 

12 Now when the soldiers of Canada were distant 
about a furlong, moving towards the strong hold; even 
when the destroying engines were ready to utter their 
thunders and smite them to the earth; 

13 William, whose heart failed him, commanded the 
valiant men of Columbia to bow down before the ser¬ 
vants of the king. 

14 And he ordered them to yield up the destructive 
weapons which they held in their hands. 

15 Neither could they appear in battle against the 
king again for many days. 

16 Moreover, the cowardice of his heart caused him 
to make a league with the servants of the king, in the 
which he gave unto them the whole territory over which 
the people had entrusted him to preside; notwithstand¬ 
ing it appertained not unto him. 

17 And the balls of solid iron, and the black dust,and the 
destroying engines became a prey unto the men of Britain. 

18 Now there had followed after William a band of 
brave men from the west, and the name of their captain 


Miller, Cass, M y 4rtlwr 3 Brush, Findley, %c. 



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was Brush; and he had-in trust the bread and the wine 
which were to refresh the army of Columbia. 

3 9 And, lest they should fall into the hands of the 
savages, a captain, whose name was ^ anliorn, was or¬ 
dered to go forth and meet him. 

20 And the band that went forth, were entrapped at 
Brownstown, by the cunning savages, that laid wait for 
.them; and the killed and the wounded of Columbia 
were about two score. 

21 And again there were sent from the camp of Wil¬ 
liam rr\ore than five hundred men to go to the aid of Brush. 

22 And the name of the chief captain thereof, was 
JVIiller; and’the captain whom he ordered to go before 
him was called Snelling.* 

23 Now Snelling was a valiant man, and strove hard 
against the men of .Britain, and the savages j even until 
Miller the chief captain arrived. 

24 And the place which is called Maguago, lieth about 
an hundred furlongs from Detroit. 

25 Now the battle waxed hot; and the host of Miller 
pressed hard upon the savages and upon the men of 

; Britain. 

26 Inasmuch as they were compelled to flee before the 
arms of Columbia: and Miller gat great honor thereby. 

27 And there fell of the men of Britain that clay an 
hundred two score and'ten. 

28 Nevertheless, in the league which William had made, 
lie had included Miller, and all the brave captains and 
the men of war of Columbia that were nigh the place. 

29 Now, therefore, whether it was cowardice out- 

* Col. Miller and Col. Snelling. 




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right, in William, or whether he became treacherous for 
filthy lucre’s sake, appeareth not unto the scribe.* 

30 But the effect thereof to the nation, was as a man 
having a millstone cast about his neck. 

31 So William and his whole army fell into the hands 
of the'servants of the king. 

32 But, as it is written in the book of Solomon, There 
is a time for all things; so it came to pass, afterwards, 
that William was called to account for his evil deeds. 

33 And he was examined before the lawful tribunal of 
his country; and they were all valiant warriors and 
chief captains in the land of Columbia. 

34 Howbeit, when the councilf had weighed well the 
matter, they declared him guilty of treason, and that he 
should suffer death. 

35 Nevertheless, they recommended him to the mercy 
of James, the chief governor of the land of Columbia, 

3<5 Saying, Lo! the wickedness of the man appeareth 
unto us as palpable as the noon day; 


* To palliate Hull’s conduct , it has been urged that 
he surrendered his army to prevent the effusion of 
blood: but let us ask those charitable palliators what 
they would have said'of Gen. Jackson , if when a 
mighty and a blood-thirsty enemy appeared before his 
battlements , in quest of beauty and booty, he had given 
up N. Orleans and ceded the Louisiana territory to 
him? or of the gallant Croghan , when left to defend 
fort Stephenson with a handful of men and a single six, 
pounder?—These palliators might even have wished 
that the heroes of Erie and Champlain had felt the 
same qualms of conscience :—but they ought to know 
that it icas such noble deeds that stopt the “ effusion of 
blood .” • ■ ^ J 

t Court-Martial 






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57 But the infirmities of his age have weakened his 
understanding; therefore let his grey iiairs go down to 
the grave in silence. 

S3 And when James heard the words of the council, 
his heart melted as wax before the fire. 

39 And he said, Lo ! ye have done that which seem- 
eth right unto me. 

40 And although, as my soul hopeth for mercy, for this 
thing William shall not surely die; yet his name shall 
be blotted out from the list of the brave. 

41 Notwithstanding this, William thanked him not, 
but added insult to cowardice.* 

42 So William was ordcrded to depart to the land 
which lieth in the east,t where he remaineth unto this 
day: and his name shall be no more spoken of with re¬ 
verence amongst men. 

43 Moreover, there was another e\ il which fell upon 
the people of the United States, about the time the host 

' of’‘Columbia crossed the river Detroit. 

44 For, lo ! the strong hold of Michilimackinackj, 
which lieth nigh unto the lakes of Michigan and Huron, 

> fell an easy prey unto the men of Britain and their red 
I brethren; 

45 Whose numbers were rnoHC than four-fold greater 
than the men of Columbia, who knew’ not of the war. 

46 Nevertheless, the people of the United States., 
even the great Sanhedrim, were not disheartened; nei- 

I ther wore they afraid: for they had countea the cost, and 
were prepared to meet the evil. 


Hull's address to tlic public, t Massachusetts 




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SO 


CHAP. VIII. 

Capture of the British frigate Guerricre , hij the United 

State's frigate Constitution , captain Hull—capture 

of the Alert sloop of tear, by the Essex, captain 

Porter. 

NOW it came to pass, on the nineteenth day of the 
eighth month, that one of the tall ships of Columbia, 
- called the Constitution, commanded by Isaac, whose sir- 
name was Hull, 

2 Having spread her white wings on the bosom of the 
mighty deep, beheld from afar one of the fighting ships 
of Britain bearing the royal cross. 

3 And the name of the ship was called, in the lan¬ 
guage of the French, Guerriere,* which signifieth a war¬ 
rior, and Dacres was the captain thereof. 

4 Now when Dacres beheld the ship of Columbia 
his eyes sparkled with joy, for he had defied the vessels 
of Columbia. 

5 And he spake unto his officers and his men that 
were under him, saying, 

6 Let every man be at his post, and ere the glass hath 
passed the third part of an hour the stripes of the Con- 
slit ution shall cease to sweep the air of heaven, 

7 And the yawning deep shall open its mouth to re¬ 
ceive the enemies of the king. 


* The Guerriere teas taken from the French by the 
British. 





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n 

8 And the men of Dacres shouted aloud, and drank 
of the strong waters of Jamaica, which make men mad; 
moreover, they mixed the black dust therewith. 

9 Now when Isaac drew nigh unto the king’s ship, the 
warriors of Columbia shouted. 

10 And Isaac bore down upon the strong ship of the 
king. 

11 About this time they put the lighted match to the 
black dust of the destroying engines, and it was like unto 
a clap of thunder. 

12 Moreover, the fire and smoke issued out of the 
mouths of the engines in abundance, so as to darken the 
air, and they were overshadowed by the means there¬ 
of. 

13 Now the black dust was not known among the an¬ 
cients ; even Solomon, in the plenitude of his wisdom, 
knew it not. 

14 And the battle continued with tremendous roar 
for about the space of half an hour, when its noises 
ceased. 

15 But when the clouds of smoke had passed away, 
| behold ! the mighty Guerriere lay a sinking wreck upon 
I the face of the waters. 

16 The shadow of hope passed over her as a dream; 
and most reluctantly was she compelled to strike the 
lion’s red cross to the Eagle of Columbia : 

17 Whilst the Constitution, like Shadrach in the 
fiery furnace, remaining unsinged, filled her white 
sails, and passed along as though nothing had happened 
unto her. 

18 Now the slain and the maimed of the king that da^r 
were five score and five. 




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19 And the loss of the people of Columbia, was se¬ 
ven slain <ind seven wounded. 

20 After this Isaac caused a burning coal to be placed 
m the Gnerriere, that she might be consumed, anti the 
flames thereof mounted towards the heavens. 

21 And the great Sanhedrim honored Isaac with 
great honor, and the people were rejoiced in him, and 
they forgat, in the contemplation of his glory, the evil 
which had befallen them in the north. 

22 But when the lords and counsellors of Britain 
heard those things, they believed them not; it was as 
the bitterness of gall to- their souls : for the pride of 
Britain was fixed upon her navy; it was the apple of 
hei eye. 

2 d Now, as one evil followeth after another to the 
sons of men, so it happened that, in the same month, a 
certain strong ship of the United States, even the Es¬ 
sex, the name of the captain whereof was Porter, sailed 
in search of the vessels of the king, on the waters of the 
ocean. 

24 And in process of time, she fell upon one of the. 
slups ot Britain, called the Alert, and made spoil fheret-f 
p the people of Columbia.' 





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CHAP. IX, 


Attack on Sachet’s Harbour—affair of Ogdensburgu 
—British drove from St. Regis , by the Troy militia 
under major Young—the brigs Adams and Caledc 
nia re-captured by capt. Elliot , near fort Erie . 


OW the movements of the enemy were as the 
motion of a whirlwind, which passetb from the north to 
I the south, and from the east to the west. 

2 And they sought to encompass the whole land of 
Columbia round about. 

3 So it came to pass, that a number of the armed ves- 

. sels of the king, that sailed on the great lake which is 
railed Ontario, moved towards SackePs Harbour. 

4 And they demanded certain vessels of the people 
of the United States, which they had taken from the 
king, to be given up unto them, saying, 

5 Verily, if ye give them not up, then* ill we lays 
contribution upon you, and ye shall pay tribute. 

6 But Bellinger, the ehief captain of the Harbour, 
refused. 

7 And whew the vessels of the king were hard by, a 
certain captain, whose name was Woolsey, set one of the 
engines to work. 

S And the vessels of the king also opened the mouths 
of their engines, and shot into the camp of Columbia. 

9 And the number of the husbandmen of the United 

D 





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States that flocked t 6 the defence of the Harbour was 
about three thousand. 

10 And when the men of w*ar of Britain saw that the 
people of Columbia were not afraid, and that they knew 
td use the destroying engines, they fled to their strong 1 
hold, in the* province Of the king, which is called Kings¬ 
ton. 

1 1 Howbeit, some of their ships received much dam¬ 
age from the balls of heavy metal, that smote them from 
the strong hold. 

12 Now as the malice of the nations increased one 
against another, so did the evils increase Which surround¬ 
ed 1 theliV. 

13 And it came to pass, on the fourth day of the 
tftnth month, there came a thousand fighting men of 
Britain to lay waste the village of Ogdensburgh, which* 
lieth hard by the river St. Lawrence. 

14 Howbeit, the people of Columbia permitted them 
not to come unto the land; but compelled them to depart 
in haste. 

15 Nigh unto this place is a village which is called 1 
St. Regis, where the soldiers of Britain had come to fix 
a strOhg" hold on the borders of Columbia. 

16 But a brave captain, whose name was Young/ 
With a band of men, called militia, went against them. 

1 7 And he set the destroying engines to w ork, and the 
noise thereof sounded in their ears; so they w*ere discom¬ 
fited and fled in confusion. 

18 And thte number of the servants of the king/ 
made captive that day, was tw r o score men, with the in¬ 
struments of destruction in their hands. 

tO Moreover, one of the banners of the king, even' 


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*he red-cross standard of Britain, fell Into the hands of 
Young. 

20 On the eighth day of the same month, a captain 
of Columbia, whose name was Elliot, a cunning man, 
•took a chosen band, who came from the sea-coast, ai**i 
put them in boats. 

21 And he departed with them from Niagara towards 
the strong hold of Erie,, even in the dead of the night. 

22 And he came unawares upon the two vessels 
which were covenanted to the king, with the army at 
Detroit. 

26 And the names of the vessels were the Adams 
and the Caledonia, and Elliot captured them the same 

night. 

24 However, the next day, as Elliot and his men 
were returning with their prizes, the men of Britain, 
who were upon the other shore, let the destroying engines 
loose upon them from their strong hold; 

25 And a few of the people of Columbia were slain. 
It was here the valiant Cuyler* fell; a ball of heavy 
metal struck him as he was coming oa a fleet horse to* 
wards the water's edge. 

26 Now, Cuyler was a man well beloved; and the 
officers and men of Columbia grieved for him mai^V 
days. 


* Major Cuyler of N. Jersey, 


•Si 


HISTORICAL 


CHAP. X. 

Battle of Queenstown—the British General Brock 
killed. 

jf\_ND it came to pass, on the morning of the thir¬ 
teenth day of the tenth month, 

2 That Stephen, a chief captain of Columbia, sir- 
named Van Rensselaer, essayed to cross the river which 
is called Niagara, with his whole army. 

3 Now the river lieth between the Lake Erie and the 
Lake Ontario. 

4 And the noise of the waters of the river is louder 
than the roaring of the forest; yea, it is like unto the 
rushing of mighty armies to battle. 

5 And the movement (f the stupendous falls there- 
•of bringcth the people from all parts -of the earth to be¬ 
hold it.* 

6 So Stephen gat His soldiers into .the boats that were 
^prepared for them, and they moved upon the rough 
waters of the river, towards the strong hold of Queens¬ 
town. ■ 

7 And when the men of Britain saw them approach,, 
they opened the engines upon them, from Fort George, 
■and round about. 

8 Nevertheless, they persevered; althoughthe strength 
of the waters, which were ungovernable, separated the 
army. 

9 However, Solomon,t a captain and a kinsman of 

* Niagara Falls, f Col Solomon Van Rensselaer 




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Stephen, reached tlie shore with the men under his com* 
mand, in all about t\>«o hundred. 

10 And lie put the army in battle array, in.a valley, 
tind moved up towards the strong hold; .and Brock was 
the chief captain of the host of Britain. 

11 And from their strong hold they shot, with their 
mischievous engines, balls of lead in abundance ; and it 
was as a shower of hail upon the people of Columbia; 

12 For there was no turning to the right hand nor to 
the left for safety. 

13 And Solomon and his men fought hard; and they 
.rushed into tire hottest of the battle. 

14 And a captain t>f the United States, whose name 
was Chrystie, followed close after them, with a chosen 
,band of brave men. 

13 So they pushed forward, to the strong- hold, and 
.drove the men of Britain before them like sheep, and 
smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter; and 
. Brock, their chief captain, was-among the slain. 

16 And Chrystie, and the valiant Wool, and Ogil- 
vie, and the host of* Columbia, got into the hold, and the 
army of the king fled: .and Chrystie was wounded in 
.the palm of his hand 

17 But Solomon was. sorely wounded, so that his 
strength failed him, and he.went, not into.the hold. • 

18 And that day .there fell $>f the servants of .the king 
many valiant men, even those who were called Invinci- 
bles, and had gained great honour in Egypt. 

19 Nevertheless, the same day a mighty host of sava¬ 
ges and soldiers of the king,* came forth again to battle, 

Reinforcements from Fort George and Chippawa* 
D % 




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and rushed upon the people of the United States, finu 
drove them from the strong hold o £$ Queenstown. 

20 For, lo ! Stephen, the chief captain, could not pre¬ 
vail on the hosts of militia on the other side of the'river 
lo cross over. 

21 So the army of Columbia moved down towards 
the river to cross over again, that they might escape. 

22 But when they came down to the water side, lo ! 
they were deceived, for there was not a boat to convey 
them to a place of safety; so they became captives to the 
men of Britain. 

23 Now the men of Britain treated the prisoners 

kindly, and showed much tenderness towards them ; for 
which the people blessed them. t 

24 And the killed and woundedofthe host of Colum¬ 
bia, were an hundred two score and ten. 

25 And the prisoners that fell into the hands of the 
Sang, were about seven hundred. 

26 Nevertheless, in a letter which Stephen sent to 
Henry,* the chief captain of the army of the north, he 
gave great honor unto the captains who fought under 
him that day. 

27 And the names of the valiant men, who distin- 
:-guished themselves in the battle, were Wadsworth, Van 

Rensselaer, Scott, Chrystie, Fenwick, Fink, Gibson, 
and many other brave men of war. 


* Major Gen. Dearborn 


READER 




CHAP- XT. 

Gen. Smyth succeeds Gen. J an Rensselaer—his attempt 
to ci’oss the Niagara , and failure — causes. 


JL JLFTER these things, on the same day in which tire 
letter was written, Stephen resigned the command of his 
army to a certain chiefcaptain whose name was Alexander, 

2 Now Alexander was a man well skilled in the arts 
of warfare. 

3 And he made-a proclamation to the young men of 
tlie state of New York, wherein he invited them to go forth 
from their homes and join the host under him. 

4 And the words thereof pleased the young men so 
'that they went in numbers and joined Alexander, on the 
shores of the river which is called Niagara. 

5 But here the hand of the scribe trembleth, his tongue 
faltereth, his heart sickeneth, and lie would .fain blot 
from his memory thatwhich truth compels him to record 3 
for he is a living.witness thereof. 

6 Alas ! there was an evil spirit moving in secret and 
in bye-places throughout the land of Columbia. 

7 And lo ! its \iper-like insidiousness crept into the 
ears of the unwary husbandmen. 

8 For the sect of tlie tories whispered unto them, say- 
ing, Lo! the laws of the land cannot compel you to step 
over the borders the United States. 


* Brig. Gen . Smyth, 







HISTORICAL 


9 Moreover, said they, the fierceness of the savages is 
^terrible as the wild tyger, and their numbers as the trees 

of the forest. 

10 And the veteran soldiers of the king, who have 
> been bred to war, are spread in multitudes <5ver the pro¬ 
vince of Canada. 

11 Therefore, if ye go-over to fight against them, ye 
will be as sheep going to the slaughter; and ye shall 
never again return to the house of your fathers, for ye 
will be destroyed. 

12 Even as the wickedness of the war, which the 
great Sanhedrim have made against the king cannot 

prosper, so shall ye fall a prey to the folly thereof. 

13 And it came to pass when the husbandmen heard 
- these smooth words, many of them were bewildered in 

their minds, and knew not what to do. 

14 So when the young-men, who had flocked to the 
-banners of Alexander, came down to the waters edge, 
to go into the boats, they thought of the words which 
the enemies of Columbia had spoken unto them; and 

.they refused to cross over: 

15 Neither could the persuasions of the chief captain 
prevail on them alkto go into the boats; and those whose 

. hearts were willing were not enough. 

16 So he was obliged to -suffeiythem to return to their 
homes; for his expectations were blasted. 

17 And the army of Columbia went into winter 
quarters; for the earth was covered with snow, and the 
.waters*>f the great lakes,- on the borders of which they 

juhad'pitdiexbtlieir tents, were congealed* 



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•CHAP. XII. 

Capture of the British sloop of tear Frolic, of 52 
guns, by the United Stales- sloop of war Wasp, of 
1 8 guns. 


OW the strong ships of war of die kingdom of 
Great Britain were spread over the whole face of the 
waters of the ocean. 

2 But few, indeed, were the vessels ©f Columbia that 
were fighting ships, and carried the destroying engines. 

3 Howsoever, early in the morning of the eighteenth 
day of the tenth month, about the sixth hour, being oa 

| the sabbath daj r , 

4 One of the ships of Columbia, called the Wasp ? 
.the name of the captain whereof was Jones, a valiant 
man, discovered afar ofT one of the strong ships of the 
king. 

5 Now the ship of Britain was mightier than the 
ship of Columbia.; and she was called the Frolic, and 
the captain’s name was Whinyeates. 

6 And they began to utter their thunders about tlie 
eleventh hour of the day, and the noises continued for 
more than the space of half an hour ; 

7 When the Wasp, falling upon the Frolic, and get¬ 
ting entangled therewith, the men struggled together; 




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and the mariners of Columbia overpowered the mari¬ 
ners of Britain. 

8 So it came to pass, that the Frolic became captive 
•to the ship of Columbia. 

9 And the slain and the wounded of the king’s ship 
were about four score. 

10 And the children of Columbia lost, in all, about 
half a score : howbeit, there was much damage done to 
both vessels. 

11 Nevertheless, about this time, a mighty ship of 
Britain, called the Poictiers, came upon the vessels, 
which were in a defenceless situation, and took them 
both, and commanded them to go to the island of the 
king which is called Bermuda. 

12 However, the people of Columbia were pleased 
with the noble conduct of Jones, and for his valiant acts 
they gave him a sword of curious workmanship. 

13 Moreover, while he remained at Bermuda, the 
Inhabitants, the servants of the king, treated him kindly.; 
and showed much respect for him and his officers that 
.were made captive. 


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CHAP. XIII. 

Capture of the British frigate Macedonian , by Coin. 
Decatur , in the frigate Vnited States.*—Brig Vixen' 
captured by the British frigate Southampton. 


rs OW it happened oh the twenty-fifth day of the 
tenth month, in the first year of the war; that a certain 
strong ship of Britain, that had prepared herself to fight 
a ship of Columbia, appeared upon the waters of the 
mighty deep. 

2 And she was commanded by a valiant captain, 
whose name was Carden, and the name of thevship was 
the Macedonian. 

3 And on the same day she met one Of the strong 
ships of Columbia, the name of the captain whereof was 
.Decatur, and the vessel was called tbe United States. 

4 Now Decatur was a man who had never known 
Pear 5 and the good of his country was the pride of his 
heart j 

5 And when he came towards the vessel of the king^ 
he used no entreaty with his men, for they all loved 
him, and the motion of his finger was as the word of his 
mouth. 

6 So when the ships came nigh unto one another, 
their thunders were tremendous, and the smoke thereof 
Was as a black cloud. 

7 Nevertheless, in the space of about ninety minute 


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the strong ship of Britain struck her red flag fo the 
stripes of Columbia. 

8 Now the Macedonian was a new ship and she gat 
much damage. 

9 But the United States, like the companions of 
Shadrach, moved unhurt upon the waters; nay, even 
her wings were not singed. 

10 And the slain and the wounded, of the ship of 
the king, were five score and four. 

11 And there fell of the people of Columbia five who 
were slain outright, and there were seven maimed. 

12 Moreover the ship of Britain had seven of the 
stolen men of Columbia therein, who were compelled 
fo fight against their brethren; and two of them were 
slain in battle. 

13 And when Carden came on board the ship of 
Columbia, he bow r ed his head, and offered to put his 
sword, of curious workmanship, into the hands of De¬ 
catur. 

14 But Decatur said unto him, Nay, thou hast de¬ 
fended thy ship like a valiant man } therefore, keep thy 
sword, but receive my hand. 

15 So they sat down aud drank wine together 5 for 
the spirits of brave men mingle even in the time of 
warfare. 

16 And after they had eaten and drank, Carden open¬ 
ed his mouth, for he was troubled in his mind, and spake 
unto Decatur, saying: 

17 Lo ! if this thing which hath happened be known 
Unto the king, that one of the vessels of Britain hath 
struck her flag, and become captive to a vessel of the 
United .States, what shall be done unto the captain 


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therein for such a thing liath not been heard of among 
the nations of the earth. 

18 And Decatur answered, and spake unto Carden, 
saying, ^ only thou art deceived, neither will harm hap¬ 
pen unto thee. 

19 Tor, io ! it came to pass, about three score days 
ago, that one of the strong ships of the king, thy master, 
the name whereof was called Guerriere, fell an easy 
prey to one of the strong ships of Columbia 5 and they 
burnt her with fire upon the waters. 

20 Now when Carden heard these words, his heart 
leaped with joy 5 for he dreaded the frowns of the king, 
and he was glad that he stood not alone in the thing. 

21 After this, in the eighteen hundred and thirteenth 
year of the Christian era, on the first day of the first 
month of the same year, and on the sixth day of the 
week, 

22 The ship United States, and the ship Macedonian 
came into the haven of New-York, having passed a cet> 
tain dangerous place called Hell-gate; and there was $ 
heavy fog that day. 

23 And there were great rejoicings in the city of 
New-York, and throughout the land of Columbia. 

24 Moreover, there was a sumptuous dinner given to 
Isaac, Decatur, and Jones, in honor of their valiant 
deeds; and the number of the guests were about five 
bundled. 

25 And the inhabitants of Nbw-York made a great 
feast, on the ninth day of the month, for the brave mari¬ 
ners that wrought in the ship of Columbia. 

2 G And they became merry with the drinking of 



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wine; aftef which they departed and went into a house 
•f mirth and gaiety.* 

27 Now, it is written in the words of Solomon, whose 
wisdom hath not been excelled, that, there .is a time to 
weep, and a time to rejoice. 

28 Not many days after those things, it came to 
pass, that the hearts of the lords and the counsellors of 
Britain were rejoiced. 

29 For a certain mighty ship, called the Southamp¬ 
ton, fell upon a smaller vessel of the United States,! 
and made capture thereof unto the king. 

30 But tjie storm arose, and the sea beat upon the 
vessels, and they were cast away, and they parted asun¬ 
der, upon an island which lieth far to the south, and both 
vessels were lost. 


* Theatre. 

f United States* brig } Vixen , 1 Z„guns, G. W. Rccd y 
Mnrmnder, 



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CHAP. XIV. 

-Affairs in the north — skirmisheS—battle of Frenchtoitn , 
on t/ic river Raisin—capture of Gen. Winchester’s 
armp—massacre of American prisoners . 


1YF 

-L xl OW it (fame to pass, that the wickedness of Britain 
bad roused up the spirit of Satan hi the savages of the 
forest, in the north and in the west. 

2 And the tomahawk and the scalping knife Were 
raised against the people of Columbia on the borders of 
the great lakes. 

3 So the people sought after a valiant man to go 
ag&insfthe savages and the men of Britain. 

4 And they pitched upon a certain governor of one of 
the states in the west, whose name was Harrison,* and 
the great Sanhedrim made him a chief captain of the 
army. 

5 Moreover, he was beloved by the people, and a 
mighty host of husbandmen were ready to follow after 
him. 

(> And Ilnrrison rested his army at the strong hold of 
Meigs, nigh the Miami Rapids, which lieth in the way 
journeying towards the strong hold of Malden, which is 
in the province of the king; whither he intended to go 
forth in the pleasant season of the year. 


* M aj. Gen. IF. II. Harrison , Governor of Ohio. 




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7 And Winchester* was another chief captain that 
xent against the savages. 

8 Now the savages had been a sore thorn in the sick 
©f the people of Columbia. 

9 They had assailed the hold which is called after a 
chief captain, whose name was Dearborn, and their num¬ 
bers overpowered it, and they used deceit, and put to 
death the men, and the women, and the infants that were 
found in the hold, after they had become captives, save 
about half -a score. 

10 And their bowlings along the dark forest were 
more terrible than the wild w r olf, and their murderous 
cu ming more dreadful than the prowling tvger. 

11 And the servants of the kino; gave them to drink 
of the strong waters of Jamaica, well knowing that they 
$ovei it as they did their own souls. 

12 These were-the allies, the messmates, the com¬ 
panions of the soldiers of Britain ! hired assassins. 

13 However, about this time there were many brave 
captains of the people of the United States that went 
against them. 

14 Even Russel, and Hopkins, and Tupper, and 
Campbell, and Williams, and others, who drove the red 
savages before them, 

15 And burnt their villages,* and laid waste their 
habitations, and slew many of them ; for it is written in 
the holy scripture, Blood for blood! 

16 Nevertheless, they treated the savage prisoners 
who fell into their hands kindly ; neither suffered they 
the people to buffet them ! 

1 7 But it came to pass, on the twenty-second day of 


* Brig, Gen, Winchester, 





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t?ic first month, that a mighty horde of savages, and ser¬ 
vants of the king, fell upon the army of Winchester the 
chief captain. 

18 And it was about the dawning of the day, when 
the destructive engines opened their fires. 

39 And the place where the battle was fought was 
called, in the vernacular tongue, Frenchtown, which 
lieth on the south side of the River Raisin, nigh unto 
Lake Erie. 

20 Now the name of the chief captain of the army 
of Britain was Proctor, and he proved himself a wicked 
man, and bis name is despised even unto this day. 

21 And when the battle waxed hot, and they began to 
rush one upon another with great violence, 

22 The small band of Columbia fought desperately, 
and the slaughter was dreadful: and the pure snow of 
heaven was sprinkled and stained with the blood of 
men! 

23 Nevertheless, the people of the United States 
were overcome, and their chief captain made prisoner. 

24 So when Winchester found he >vas made captive, 
and that there was no hope for the rest of the n;en under 
his command, he made a league with Proctor, the chief 
captain of the host of the king. 

25 In the which Proctor agreed to vouchsafe protec¬ 
tion to the captive men of Columbia, from the wrath of 
the savages, whom he had inflamed. 

20 Now the number of the men of Columbia that 
fell into their hands that day, were about five hundred ; 
and the slain and wounded about an hundred two score 
and ten. 

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27 And the number of the savages and the men of 
Britain who fell in battle that day were many. 

28 And Proctor removed the captives unto the strong 
hold of Malden, which lieth upon the opposite side of 
the river, iu the province of the king. 

29 But, in the cruelty of his heart, he left the sick, 
the wounded, and the dying to the mercy of the savages 
of the wilderness ! 

30 In this thing he transgressed the word he had 
pledged, which is evil in the sight of the Lord. 

31 Oh ! for a veil to hide in utter darkness the hor¬ 
rid deeds of that awful day, that they might not be 
handed down to the children of men, in the times to 
come. 

32 Lo ! early in the morning of the next day, ere 
the sun had risen, the work of death began ! 

33 Behold the sullen savage, with deadly rage, di'ag 
forth the shivering soldier over the blood-stained snow 
fainting, bleeding with his wounds, and imploring on his 
knees for mercy. 

34 Alas! the savage understandeth not his words; 
but giveth him a blow with the hatchet of death. 

35 For have not the counsellors of Britain said, For 
this will we give unto you silver and gold ? 

36 Thus were the poor wounded prisoners of Co¬ 
lumbia slaughtered in abundance. 

37 And Round-Head, the chief captain of the war¬ 
riors, and the savages under him, gat great praise from 
Proctor, the chief captain of the host of Britain.* 

38 Neither did the sick and wounded escape, who 

f SecFroctoFs account , dated Quebec, Feb . 8,1813-. 



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had gathered themselves together in the houses, that 
they might be sheltered lrom the piercing cold; even 
those who were weary and unable to go forth. 

39 For the savages put the burning brand to the 
houses, from which they could not flee, and burnt them 
to death therein. 

40 And the flames and the smoke arose; and their 
cries and their groans reached the high chancery of 
heaven, 

41 Where they will stand recorded, until the coming 
of that day for which all other days were made. 

42 Lo! these were the helpmates of the mighty 
kingdom of Britain, that noble and generous nation, 
the bulwark of religion ! 

43 Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of 
Askelon.* 


* Tlic whole of this massacre teas conducted under the 
eyes of the British officers, and sanctioned by them as 
iccll as by their government ; this fact has never been 
disavowed. 




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CHAP. XV. 

Capture of the British frigate Java , by the United 
States frigate Constitution. 


In the twelfth month of the first year of the decree 
of the great Sanhedrim, on the twenty and ninth day of 
the month, 

2 It came to pass, that one of the strong ships of the 
king had approached the country of the south, which 
iieth many thousand miles off. 

3 And the ship was called Java, after one of the 
sweet scented islands of the east; where the poppy 
flourishes, where the heat of the sun is abundant, and 
where the Bohon Upas emits its deadly poison. 

4 Moreover, she carried about four hundred and fifty 
men, and a governor,* and many officers and soldiers of 
the king; and she was well prepared for battle. 

5 And Lambert commanded the ship of Britain, and 
he was a brave and valiant man. 

6 So, as he passed along, nigh unto the coast of Brazil, 
where the sun casteth the shadow of -a man to the south 
at noon day: 

7 (A place unknown to the children of Israel, in the 
days of Moses) 

8 Lo! one of the tall ships of Columbia, even the 
Constitution, beheld her when she was yet a great 


* dov. Hyslop } and suite , bound to Bombay. 




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way off, and made signs unto her which she -answered 
n«t; 

9 Which caused the gallant captain, whose sir-name 
was Bainbridge,* to cast a shot towards her, alter 
which she received the thunder of his destroying en¬ 
gines. 

10 And it was about the second hour after the mid¬ 
day, when the sound of the battle-drum was heard. 

11 And, as they approached towards ^ach other, the 
people shouted aloud, and the roaring of the engines was 
dreadful. 

12 And the servants of the king fought bravely; and 
they held out to the last. 

13 For they were ashamed to let the nations of the 
earth say unto them, 

14 Lo ! ye, who are the lords and, the masters of the 
mighty deep, have suffered these feeble Yankees to con¬ 
quer you. 

15 Therefore, the slaughter was dreadful, beyond 
measure. 

1 6 And the black clouds of smoke arose, and ob¬ 
scured the rays of the sun, so that they fought in the 
shade. 

17 And the winds moved the vessels about, and they 
strove to avoid the balls of lead, and the heavy balls of 
iron, that whistled about them in multitudes. 

18 (Now* these balls, which were gathered from the 
bowels cf the earth, were an invention unknown to 
the Philistines; even Sampson was a stranger to 
them.) 


* Cum. Bainbridge. 






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39 However, the ships fought hard, for the space of 
about two hours, when their thunders ceased. 

20 And the ship of Britain had become a wreck, 
and the deck thereof was covered with blood ! 

21 Nevertheless, the servants of the king struck not 
the Hag of Britain; for they were loth, and hesitated : 

22 But when Bainbridge, who saw this, came down 
upon them a second time, they humbled themselves, 
and drew dowft the British cross. 

23 And the slain and the wounded of the king, that 
day, were an hundred three score and ten ; 

24 And those of the people of Columbia, were about 
thirty and four. 

25 Moreover, Bainbridge^ the captain of the vessel 
©f the United States, was sorely wounded. 

26 And Lambert, the captain of the ship of the 
king, was wounded, even unto death. 

27 Now when the servants of the king were taken 
from the wreck, and meat and drink sat before them, 
that they might be refreshed, they partook thereof and 
w ere thankful. 

28 And on the second day Bainbridge put a match 
to the black dust that remained in the ship, and she 
burst asunder, and rent the air with a loud noise. 

29 And the fragments thereof were spread upon the 
waters round about. 

SO And the fish of the sea, even the mighty whales, 
fled from the noise of the explosion. 

-31 However, the Constitution escaped not unhurt, for 
she was much wounded in her tackling. 

32 _So, when Bainbridge came into the haven of St. 
Salvador, which lieth farther to the south, lie gave the 


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men of Britain, whom lie had made captive, Ifberty to 
go home to the king, their master. 

33 But when the tidings thereof reached the palace 
of the king, the lords and the princes and the rulers of 
Britain were confounded. 

34 Their spirits sunk within them: astonishment 
seized the tyrants of the ocean. 

35 The smile of joy had departed from their counte¬ 
nances, and the gloom of despair hovered around them. 

36 The wise men and the orators were mute; they 
gaped one upon another, and wist not what to say'. 

37 But the people of Columbia, from the north to 
the south, werp gladdened j and bestowed great honor 
and praise on Bainbridge the captain. 

38 Even the great Sanhedrim of the people rejoiced 
with great joy. 





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CIIAP. XVI. 

Com. Rod gars' return from a second cruise—capture of 
the U. States brig 'Riper — -the General Armstrong 
and a British frigate—privateering 


lf% OW it came to pass, in the beginning of the one 
thousand eight hundred and thirteenth year of the 
Great Founder of the Christian sect, 

2. That a strong ship of the United States, called 
the President, commanded by Rodgers, returned a se¬ 
cond time to the land of Columbia. 

3 And while she was upon the waters of the, great 
deep, she fell in with one of the packets of the king 
called after the swift flying bird* of the air, and made 
capture thereof. 

4 And in the ship Rodgers found abundance of wealth, 
even an hundred, sixty , and eight thousand pieces of 
silver. 

5 And it was carried, with many hordes, to a place 
of safe-keeping,f in the town of Boston, which lieth to 
the east. 

6 Moreover, he made capture of another ship of 
the king A laden with oil and bones of the great flsh of 
the deep. 

T Now it happened, on the seventeenth day of the 
first month of the same year, 


* Swallow, t Sank of Boston. % Ship Argo. 




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8 That one of the weak vessels of the United States*" 
became a prey to one of tliG strong ships of the king', 
called the Narcissus : albeit, she fought not. 

9 About this time the great waters of the Ghesa * 
peake, which empty into the sea, were guarded by the 
strong ships of the king, so that the vessels might not ar^ 
rive or depart therefrom. 

10 Hut the vessels of the United States, and the 
private vessels of the men of Columbia, were doing' 
great damage 'unto the commerce of Britain, even in her 
own waters. 

11 And the number of the private vessels, that moved 
swiftly over the face of the waters, and went out to de¬ 
spoil ibe commerce of Britain, and to capture the mef : • 
chant vessels thereof, was about two hundred two score 
an\l ten. 

12 And they made capture of* more than fifteen hun¬ 
dred of the vessels of the people of Britain.! 

13 Moreover, there was a sore battle between one 
of the private atmcd vessels of the people of the United 
States, and a strong ship of the king.| 

14 The privateer was called the General Armstrong, 
and the name of the captain was Guy.jJ 

15 Now Guy was. a valiant man, and fear was a- 
stranger to him. 

lG And on the eleventh day of the third month he* 
espied from afar a vessel which appeared as a speck, 
upon .the waters. 

17 But when he bore down upon her, behold! she 


* r.'prr. t During the war. $ A British f rigctfje, 
|| Copt. Champiai iu 





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was a fighting ship of Britain, carrying the destroying 
engines. 

18 And Guy was near being entrapped, for he was 
deceived, thinking it was a merchant's vessel. 

19 Therefore he, was compelled to fight; so he open¬ 
ed upon the vessel of the king, one of his mischievous 
engines called, in the vernacular tongue, Long-Tom. 

20 And they fought hard, and the noise of the engines ’ 
was very great. 

21 And the balls of lead Aid iron showered around 
like hail-stones ; for the strong ship of Britain had them 
in abundance. 

22 Now the slaughter was dreadful on both sidcsj 
and Guy was on the point of making capture of the 
ship : but he received a wound, and his vessel was disa¬ 
bled, so he made good his escape. 

23 And the slain and the wounded of' Guy were 
twenty and three, and the vessel of the king lost about 
twice that number. 

24 Now, for this valiant act, Guy gat great honor, 
and the people give him a sword of fine workmanship. 

25 Moreover, the Saratoga, the Scourge, the Ch.fA 
seur, and many other private vessels of the people of the" 
United States, were a grievous plague to the servants of 
the king; 

26 Inasmuch as some of them made sport with the 
mighty blockade pf Britain, which she put forth against 
the free people of the land of Columbia. 

27 Lor when they came nigh unto the Coast of Britain, 
they made capture and burnt the vessels of the king, that 
carried rid ^merchandise, costly jewels, and silver and gold. 

‘'JR Yea, even in their own waters, and in the sight ©f 
own havens, did they do these things. 


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29 For it happened that the cunning Yankee know 
now to construct the swift-sailing vessels, that they out¬ 
ran the strong vessels of Britain. 

30 And as the sliips of Britain moved but slowly on 
. the waters, so they caught them not. 

31 Wherefore the artificers, the mechanics, and those 
who dealt in merchandise^ralsed their voices to the green 
.council of Britain, saying', 

32 Lo ! are we not the faithful servants of the king, 
our master ? have we not given unto him tha one half of 
our whole substance ? and shall these Yankees take 
from us the remainder ? 

33 Hath not the king ii thousand ships of war ? and 
wherefore should we be hemmed in ? 

34 Lo ! our merchant vessels ale idle! neither can 
we pass in safety even unto the land of Hibernia, which 
Ifcth nigh unto us. 

35 And, behold, tlie captain of a private armed vee- 
sel of the Yankees, in derision of the proclamat on of 
our lord the king, hath proclaimed the island of Great 
Britain and her dependencies in a state of rigourou* 
blockade; saying, Lo ! I have the power to hem ye in. 

36 Therefore, let the counsellors'of the king ponder 
these things* and let the strong sliips of Britain drive the 
vessels of Columbia from our coast. 

37 Now the wisemen of Britain heard those things with 
sorrow; and they spake one to another concerning the 
matter: 

3 8 But they wist not what to do ; for the cunning of 
the captains of the fast sailing vessels of Columbia,. 8UJ® 
passed the wisdpm of the iords of Britain, 


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CHAP. XVII. 

■ Capture end burning of Qgdcnsburgli by the British. 

In these days the war against Columbia was waged 
•with great violence, 

2 And the fur-clad savages prowled in seeret places 
^nd fell upon the helpless. 

2 ‘ They hid themselves in the wilderness; tl>ey 
-couched down as a lion; and, as a young lion, .they 
watched for their prey. ? 

4 The tall and leafless trees of the forest bent to the 
strong winds of the north ; and the sound thereof was 
as the roaring of mighty waters. 

5 Moreover, the face of the earth was cover ed with 
sn and the water of the rivers was frozen. 

6 And the borders of Columbia, nigh unto the. pro¬ 
vince of the king, were exposed to the transgressions of 
the enemy. 

7 And the soldiers of the king came in abundance 
from the island of Britain, and pitched their tents in the 
Canadian provinces. 

8 Accordingly, it came to pass, on the twenty-second 
&ay of the second month, being the. birth-day of Wash¬ 
ington, the deliverer, 

9 That a mighty host came out of the province of 
the king, and went against the town of Ggdensburtrh. 
and made captui t thereof. 


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. 10 And there were fi*e slain and ten wounded of 

the people of Columbia, and about three score were 
taken by the servants of the king. 

11 Moreover, the men of Britain gat much spoils 
even a large quantity of the black dust fell into their 
bauds ; 

12 And twelve of the destroying engines, which the 
people of Columbia had taken from the king about forty 
years before. 

13 Also, three hundred ten (s, and more than a thou- 
•-sand weapons of war; but the vessels and the boats 

they consumed with fire. 

14 Now Ogdeftsburgh was a beautiful village to bar* 
hold; nevertheless they burned it with fire,- and k be- 
tame a heap of ruins. 

15 And the women and the children looked for theii 
homes, but found them, not; and they sat down in sor* 
row, for the. haughty conquerors laughed at their suffer*} 
ings. 

16 After which they returned with their spoil to 
Prescott, from whence they came, being on the e ther 
Side of the water, in the province of the king. 

v !7 And the honor that was given to too sew;?: • f 
Prltaki that day was as a thimble fed of water s; ' Q, 
the sea : for they were' like unto a giant go«)g ovrt ugantft 
a bulrush. 


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CHAP. XVIir. 

Capture of the Peacock , of 18 guns, ly the U. S- 
sloop af tear Hornet , of 16 guns—return oj the 
Chesapeake from a cruise . 

THE deeds of the renowned warriors, the patriot^, 
-and the valiant men of Colombia, have prepared a path 
for the scribe, which he is compelled to follow : 

2 But, as the soaring eagle moves to its craggy nest, 
~©r the cooing dove to its tender mate, so is the compulsion 
of his heart. 

3 If the wickedness of Britain hath made manifest 
.her folly: if her sons have sat down in sackcloth and 
-ashes, the scribe looketh down upon her with pity. 

4 It is written that, He who prideth himself in his 
strength shall be humbled ; and the haughty shall be 
brought low. 

5 And, if the Lord hath smiled upon the arms of 
• Columbia, let no man frown. 

6 Now it came to pass, in the eighteen hundred and 
sthirteenth year of the Christian era, on the twenty-fourth 

clay of the second month, 

7 That one of the fighting vessels of Columbia, Called 
the Hornet, which signifieth, in the vernacular tongue, 
a fly who«e sting is poison, 

8 Moved upon the waters of the great deep,.far to 
f 4he south, near uuto a place which is called Hgmarara. 


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9 -AiorCever, (he captain of the Hornet was a valiant 
man, and his-name was Lawrence. 

J-0 And it was towards the setting of the sun, w5ioe 
he •aine nigh unto one of the strong ships of the king, 
called the Peacocic, a^ter the bird whose feathers arc 
beautiful to behold; 

11 And the captain thereof was sir-named Peake. 

12 Now began the roaring noises of the engines of 
destruction, that opened their mouths against one an¬ 
other; and dreadful was the slaughter of .that day. 

13 Nevertheless, in the space of about the fourth 
part of an hour, the vessel of the king was captured bv 
the people mf Columbia. 

14 And they found therein some of tire mariners at 
the United States, who had begged that they might go 
down into the hold of the ship, and not raise their hands 
against the blood of their own brethren : 

15 But Peake, the commander, suffered them not, but 
compelled them to fight .against their own kinsmen : and 
one of them was slain in battle. 

16 And the killed and maimed of the people of Ik. 
taip, were about two score and two: and F^ake the cap¬ 
tain, was also slain: and the loss of Columbia was abea: 
five souls! 

17 Moreover, the Peacock sunk down into the yawn¬ 
ing deep, before they could get all the men of Britain opt 
of her;.and three of the people of Columbia were bu¬ 
ried with her, whilst in the humane act of endeavouring 
to preserve the lives of the enemy, 

IS Now this was the fifth fighting vessel of'die kipg 
which had been humbled, since thedecree of the great 
Sanhedrim, before the destroying engines of the people 
of Columbia. 


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; 19 An 1 Lawrence, and the brave men that fought 
wit!) him, had honor and praise ppnred out upon them 
abundantly. 

20 ‘Moreover, the people of New-York gave unto 
Lawrence vessels of silv.er, with curious devices ; and 
they made a feast for the men who fought in the Hor¬ 
net. 

21 And all the people were exceedingly rejoiced at 
the valiant acts of Lawrence, and his fame extended 
.throughout the land of Columbia; the sound of his 

name was the joy of every heart. 

22 But when the news thereof reached the ears of 
the wise men of Britain, they said, Lo ! those men are 
giants; neither are they like unto the warriors of the 
king. 

25 And their witchcraft. ?.nd their cunning arc dark¬ 
ness unto us; even as when a man putteth a candle un¬ 
der a bushel.. - 

24 Behold! five times hath the - e strioed bunting’ 
of Columbia, triumphed over the royal cross of Bri¬ 
tain. 

25 Now the great Sanhedrim, who were assembled 
'together, forgat not the valiant deeds of the mariners of 

Columbia. 

26 For they divided amongst them more than seven¬ 
ty thousand pieces of silver. 

27 And it came to pass, on the tenth dav of the 
fourth month, in the same year, that the Chesapeake, a 
strong vessel of the United States, arrived in the haven, 
ef Boston. 

2o She had sailed upon the face*cf the rough \Va- 


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fers more than an hundred days, after slie departed from 
the land of Columbia, and passed a great way to the 
south : 

29 And went hard by the island of Barbado.es. and 
those places, in the great sea which-encompasscth the 
world, from whence they bring poisoned waters, which 
open the womb of the earth to receive the unwary sons 
of men. 

30 Moreover, in returning, she came nigh unto the 
Capes of Virginia, where the sweet-scented plant* 
groweth in abundance. 

Si And while she was on the ocean she captured a 
number of the vessels of the people of Britain, which 
vere laden with rich mcrchaaiise. 


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CHAP. XIX. 

’Capture of little York, in Upper. Canada—the destruc. 
■iioii of the whole American army .prevented kj/ the 
precaution of Gen . Pike—his death. 


±1 OW, whilst these things happened in the south/ 
and the evils of war destroyed the life of man, and the 
smiles of heaven strengthened the arms, and lifted up 
the glory of Columbia.; 

2 Behold, preparations of warfare were making on 
the borders of the great lakes of the north. 

3 And the vessels of war of Columbia that were up¬ 
on the waters of the lake called Ontario, were com¬ 
manded by a brave man, whose name was Chauncey, 

4 Now on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month, 
the army of Columbia, who were gathered on the shore 
of the lake, went down into the strong vessels of Cliaua- 
cey. 

5 And the number that went into the vessels was 
about two thousand. 

6 And Henry* and Zebulon, whose sir-name was 
Pike,f were the chief captains of the host of Columbia. 

7 On the same day the sails of the vessels were 
spread to the winds of heaven, and they moved towards 


* Major General Dearlprn. i Brig. Gcn.Pik& 





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a place called Little York,* in the province of Canada. 

8 Ilowbeit, the winds were adverse and blew with’ 
great violence from the east. 

9 Nevertheless, on the morning of the twcntj'-seventh 
day of the same mouth, the army of Columbia, com¬ 
manded by Pike, the chief captain, moved out of the 
strong ships of the United States. 

10 But Henry remained on board the vessel of 
Chauncey, neither came he to the water’s edge. 

11 And the place where the host of Columbia land¬ 
ed was to the west of the town, about twenty and four 
furlongs, and from the strong hold of the king about ten 
fdrlongs. 

12 The gallant Forsyth, who led a band of brave 
men, who fought not for filthy lucre’s sake, went before 
the host. 

13 And their weapons of war were of curious work¬ 
manship^ and they sent forth balls of lead ; such as 
were unknown to Pharoah when he followed the Chil¬ 
dren of Israel down into the red sea. 

14 Now Zebtilonj with a thousand chosen men, fol¬ 
lowed close after Forsyth, the warrior. 

15 About this time the savages and the servants of' 
the king, even a great multitude, opened their engines of 
destruction without mercy. 

16 And from the forest, and the secret places, their 
balls were showered like unto hail-stones, and the sourid 
thereof was as sharp thunder. 

17 And a man, whose name was Sheaffe, was the 
chief captain of the host of Britain. 


* Capital of U* Canada . 


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IS Now the destroying engines of the strong hoi:?" 
*f the king issued fire and smoke with a mighty noise 
and shot at .the vessels of the United States. 

19 Ekut Chauncey returned unto them four-fold ; and 
and the battle waxed hot, both on the land and on th* 
water. 

20 And the men of Columbia rushed forward with 
force ness, and drove the men of Britain from their strong. 
hold. 

21 So they tied towards the town for safety, for they 
were overcome; and the savages were smitten with 
fear, their loud yelling* ceased, and their feet were light 
as the wild roe; 

22 Nevertheless, the men of Columbia shouted aloud, 
and sounded their trumpets, their cymbals, and their 
noisy'drums, which were contrived since the days of 
Jeroboam, king of Israel. 

23 And Zebulon^ the valiant warrior, followed hard* 
after them; and they found no rest; for they were sore 
pushed, and the phantom of their imaginations pictured 
out new evils. 

24 So when they found they were nigh being made 
captive, they, departed in haste from the town and from 
the strong hold thereof, save about two score. 

25 Now when the army of Britain was overthrown; 
when they were compelled to flee from the stronghold ; 
tlfr wickedness of Satan entered into their hearts. 

26 And they gathered together abundance of tlfr 
Mack dust and fixed it in the lowermost part of the fort, 
below the walls of stone. 

27 After which they put a lighted match nigJiTO if ; 


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ss> that when the whole army of Columbia got into the 
hold, they might be destroyed. 

28 But the Lord, who is good, even he who govern- 
eth the destinies of man, permitted it not. 

29 Now when Zelpilon and his army came out of 
the thick woods, in battle array, to go forth against the 
strong hold, . 

30 I.o ! they saw' not the host of Britain; but the 
ej'e of Zebulon was as the eye of an eagle, his strength 
as the lion, and .his judgment as the wise : 

.31 So.he stayed his men of war from rushing for¬ 
ward towards the place, lest they might be entrapped ; 
and he caused them to move along the w ood to the; 
right hand and to the left. 

,32 t About this time, a stripling from the south, with 
his weapon of war in hie hand, ran up to Zebulon, and 
spake unto him, saving, 

. 33 Behold ! a man of. Britain nppeareth in the fort; 
suffer me, I pray thee, to slay him, for lie is busied with 
the destroying engines: 

34 But Zebulon said, nay; we are yet a great way 
off. 

33 And the young man entreated him a second time, 
saving, l beseech thee, let me step out before the host 
and slay him, lest the engine be let loose upon us; theu 
Zebalun stud unto him, Go. 

36 >o he ran out before the army and shot the mas, 
and he fell to the earth; and it.was about a furlong off, 
ami the weight of the bull was about the weight oi a 


shekel. 

3/ But ns the young man returned to where tne ar¬ 
my stayed, teimld ! die Mack dust in the hold ought 



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fire, and it rent the air with the noise of a thousand 
thunders: 

38 And the whole army fell down upon their faces* 
to the earth ; and the stones, and the fragments of rocks, 
were lifted high; and the falling thereof was terrible 
even unto death. 

39 Yea, it was dreadful as the mighty earthquake, 
which overturned! cities. 

40 And the whole face of the earth round about, and 
the army of Zebulon, were overshadowed with black 
ginoke ; so that, for a time, one man saw not another : 

41 Hut when the heavy clouds of smoke passed away 
towards the west, behold the earth was covered with the 
killed and the wounded. 

42 Alas! the sight was shocking to behold$ as the 
deed was ignoble. 

* 43 About two hundred men rose not : the stones had 
ftruised them ; the sharp rocks had fallen upon them : 

44 They were wedged into the earth : their weapons 
of war were bent down into the ground with them $ 
their feet were turned towards heaven; their limbs were 
lopped off. 

43 But when those who escaped unhurt arose and 
looked abound, they beheld not their chieftain ; he hatf 
fallen to the earth. 

46 A huge stone smote him upon the back, and 
Wo of bis officers, ^one of whom was the gallant 


* However strange this may appear , it is a fact tha\ 
the concussion of the air produced that effect on vearhr 
rrft who fruited the explosion. 



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Fraser*) raised him up and led him forth from the field 
of murder ; the one on the one side, and the other on 
the other side. 

47 And as they led him away he turned his head 
around to his brave warriors, and said unto them, Go 
on ; I will be with you soon J I am not slain. 

48 The magic of his words gave joy to their hearts; 
for they loved him as they loved their own father. 

41) And with resistless force his noble band rushed on, 
at the trumpet’s sound, over the heaps of slain and 
wounded, to glory, and to triumph ! 

50 And a swift messenger ran down unto Henry, 
with these words in his mouth, Lo ! the right hand of 
eur army is slain ! its pride is gone ! Zebulon has fal¬ 
len ? 

51 Immediately Henry departed from the fleet, and 
came to the shore, and went up and led the host of Co¬ 
lumbia to the town and took it. 

52 Now the slain, the maimed and the captives of 
the host of Britain that day, were about a thousand 
fighting men: 

53 And the loss of the men of Columbia was about 
three hundred slain and wounded. 

54 And Henry, the chief captain, gave great honor to 
the captains unr/er him, even Ripley, Forsyth and Lus- 
tis, and all the brave men that fought that duy. 

55 Nevertheless, Sheaffe, the captain of the king, 
escaped with a handful of men, and the swift-footed 
savages : leaving behind him the insignia of British 
mercy !—a human scalp ! 


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56 Cat the rejoicings of tlie people vr#*e mingled 
with ’deep sorrow; f'W the brave were slain in battle. 

5 7 Oh! earth, how long shall thy inhabitants delight 
in warfare ? when shall the old men cease to weep for 
their children ? 

58 Behold yon lonely widows ; they weep for their 
husbands and their children j but they shall see their 
faces no more ! 

59 The fair daughters of Columbia sigh for the re¬ 
turn of their beloved. 

60 Seest thou those little ones ? they fly to their dis¬ 
consolate mother, they leap with joy at the name of 
father ! but he shall never return ! 

61 Oh! that they had east the black dust into the 
sea then might not the children of men weep and 
wail. 

62 Now on the next day, when the army of Zebulon 
gat the tidings that their captain was slain, the tears 
started in their eyes; they were mute, their hearts failed 
them ; and they became as weak women. 

63 Moreover, the United Statei'made great lamen¬ 
tations over him; and the remembrance of his name 
shall live in the hearts of the people. 

^64 The eagle of Columbia dropt a feather from .her 
wing, which the angel of brightness caught ere it fell to 
the earth, ascended to heaven, and recorded the ..name 
©f Pike. 


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CHAP. XX. 

Sketches of the History of America. 

m 

£L HE the Voice of many years shall drop upon the 
children of men ; and our children’s children shall hear¬ 
ken unto it in the days to come. 

2 The country of Columbia is a wide extended land, 
which reacheth from the north to the south, more man 
eight thousand miles ; and the breadth thereof is about 
three thousand. 

3 Moreover the name of the country was called after 
the name of a great man, who was born in a place called 
Genoa ; being in Italia, on the sea-coast. 

4 His name was Christopher, sir-named Columbus 

3 As therighteous mau struggled! against wickedness, 

so did lie against ignorance and stupidity. 

(j Ne/erth dess, it came to p<iss, in the fou * ?en hun¬ 
dred and ninety second year ol the Christian era, that he 
crossed the waters of the mighty deep, a tiling that had 
never been kuowii among the sons of men. 

7 Anil tin* place where he'landed was an isl md in 
the sea, nigh unto the continent of Columbia, called, dm 
Salvador ; which, being interpreted, siguiuetii a place of 
safety. 

8 And the place was inhabited by wild savages, and 
they were naked. 

9 Now when the people heard that (’olumb ■> had 
tT>: n.l a new land, they were astonished beyond measure, 



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tor it was many thousand miles ofT; moreover, some vi 

them strove to rob him of the honour, and he was treated 

♦ 

wrongfully. 

10 But his name was lifted up above his enemies, and 
It shall not be lost. 

11 Now the land of Columbia is a most plentiful land, 
yielding gold and silver, and brass and iron abundantly. 

12 Likewise, all manner of creatures which are used 
for food, and herbs and fruits of the earth: 

13 From the red rherry, and the ros} r peach of the 
north, to the lemon, and the golden orange of the south. 

14 And from the small insect, that cheateth the mi¬ 
croscopic eye, to the huge mammoth that once moved on 
the borders of the river Hudson 5 on the great river 
Ohio ; and even down to the country of Patagonia in 
the south. 

15 Now the heighth of a mammoth is about seven 
cubits and a half, and the length thereof fourteen cu¬ 
bits ; and the bones thereof being weighed are more than 
thirty thousand shekels ; and the length of the tusks is 
more than six cubits. 

16 It is more wonderful than the elephant; and the 
history thereof, is it not recorded in the book of Jeffer¬ 
son, the scribe ?* 

17 The fierce tyger and the spotted leopard, dwell 
in the dark forests; and the swift-footed deer upon 
the mountains and high places. 

18 Now the number of inhabitants that are spread 
over the whole continent, is more than an hundred mil¬ 
lion. 


# Jefferson's notes on Virginia. 




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And the people of Columbia, who are indepen¬ 
dent of the tyrants of the earth, and who dwell between 
the great river which is called Mississippi, in the south, 
and the province of Canada in the north, being number¬ 
ed, are about ten thousand times ten thousand souls.* 

20 The men are comely and noble, and cowardice 
hath forgot to light upon them : neither are they a su¬ 
perstitious people; they are peace-makers, they love 
the God of Israel, and worship him.; and there are no 
idolaters amongst them. 

21 The women are passing beautiful; they are like 
unto fresh lilies ; their cheeks are like wild roses; their 
dips as a thread of scarlet; nature hath gifted them with 
Homan virtue and patriotism ; and they have spread 
goodness with a plentiful hand. 

22 Now it had happened in times past that the king 
of Britain had made war upon the people of Columbia, 
even forty years ago. 

23 For the. riches and prosperity of Columbia had 
become great, and the king coveted them. 

24 And the war raged with the might of Britain, 
even in the heart of the land of Columbia, for about the 
space of seven years, when the army of Columbia be¬ 
came triumphant; neither could the power of Britain 
conquer the sons of liberty. 

25 Accordingly a part of those who remained of 
the armies of Britain returned ’ home to the king, their 
master: but a great number refused to return, prefer- 


* The last census, in 18*0 , -stated the amount at 
■about 8/>00,000, the number may note probably be w 
• creased to 10,000,000. 



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ing a country whose mild laws are equally and righteous¬ 
ly dispensed, and where the hard earnings of industry 
are not taken away by the tax-gatherer : 

26 So there was peace throughout the United States, 
and a covenant made between the nations. 

27 But the names of the wise men of the great San¬ 
hedrim in those days, and the names of those who 
fought hard in hattlO, and spilt their blood irf the cause 
of liberty, are they not written in the books of the chron¬ 
icles ot those days ? 

28 Now the fatness of the land of Columbia bringeth 
people from all nations to dwell therein. 

29 The people of Columbia use no persuasion, the 
sacred cause of Liberty is the star op attrac¬ 
tion ; and the time shall come when the eyes of all men 
shall be opened, and the earth shall rejoice. 

SO Their laws are wholesome, for the people are the 
lawgivers, even as it was in the days of Cesar: but tltey 
know no kings. 


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CHAP. XXL 

lOr predations in the Chesapeake — Havre-de~ Croon 
burnt by the British under Adm. CoeJcburn — at¬ 
tack nn Crany Island —— Hampton taken by the 
Jin l ish — outrages* 


NOW it came to pass, that the mighty fleet of Bri¬ 
tain, which \v*s moving round about the great Bay of 
Chesapeake, committed much evil upon the shores 
thereof. 

2 And they robbed those who were defenceless, and 
OGrried away mecr jattea atuic, tneir srjeep, r?i»» »,u 
those tilings which they found, and put them into the 
strong ships of the king. 

3 Moreover, they burnt the dwellings of the helpless 
with fire, and they accounted it sport. 

4 And the old men, the little children, and the women, 
yea, the fair daughters of Columbia, were compelled to 
My from the wickedness of barbarians. 

,f> Even the small villages that rose beautifully on the 
river side, became a prey unto them, and were consumed 
bv men who called themselves the mighty conquerors of 
Europe. 

(3 They were like hungry wolves that are never satis¬ 
fied; destruction and devastation marked their footsteps 

I Now the ships of the king were commanded by a 
nL'kcd man whose name was Cockfcur:*. 



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7* 

8 And it was so, that on the tliird day of the fifth 
month, in the thirty and seventh year oi the indepen- 
ilence of the people of Colombia, 

<) Cockburn, sir-named the wicked, led forth a host 
of the savage men of Britain, against a pleasant village? 
called llavre-de-Grace, which lieth on the borders of 
the Susquehanna, a noble river ; being in the state of 
Maryland. 

10 Now there was none to defend the place, save one. 
man, whose sir-name was O'Neil, who came from the 
land of Hibernia, and him they made captive. 

11 And they came as the barbarians of the wilder¬ 
ness: fierceness was in their looks, cruelty was in their 
hearts. 

12 To the dwelling houses they put the burning 
Jprftad, &ad plundered the poor and needy without pity; 
such wickedness was not done even among the Philis¬ 
tines. 

13 The women and children cried aloud, and fell 
down at the feet of the chief captain of the king: but, 
alas i his heart was like unto the heart of Pharaoh 5 he 
heard them not. 

14 However, it came to pass, the next day, v;heft 
the pitiless Cockburn had collected his booty, and 
glutted his savage disposition, he departed. 

15 And on the sixth day of the same month he 
went against other unprotected villages, which lie oi) 
the river Sassafras, called Fredericks! owm and George¬ 
town, and burnt them also. 

16 So did he return to his wickedness as a dog re* 
turneth to his vomit. 

17 Now about this time the number of the strong 


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ships of Britain was increased, and great multitudes of 
the soldiers of the king came with them to the waters 
of the Chesapeake. 

18 And it came to pass, on the twenty-second day 
of the next month, that Cockburn, the chief captain of 
the ships of Britain, essayed to go against a small island, 
nigh unto Norfolk in the state of Virginia, called in the 
vernacular tongue, Crany-Island. 

19 And the number of the men of Britain that went 
against the island was about live thousand; and they 
began to get up*n the shore at the dawning of the day. 

20 Near unto this place a few vessels of Columbia, 
commanded by the gallant Cassin, were hemmed in by 
about a score of the mighty ships of the king. 

21 Now the fighting vessels under Cassin were 
mostly small, and were called gim-boats, and they wei*e 
little more than half a score in number. 

22 Howbcit, but a few days before, they went against 
the Junon,* a strong ship of Britain, and compelled her 
to depart from before the mouths ol the destroying en¬ 
gines. 

23 But this island was defenceless ; and there came 
to protect it an hundred brave seamen from the gun¬ 
boats, and an hundred and fifty valiant men from the 
Constellation, a fighting ship of the United States. 

24 And they brought the destroying engines with 
diem, and they let them loose upon the vessels of the 
king, and upon the men who w ere landing upon the 
ahorc. 


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25 And the thundering noise thereof astonished 
the servants of the king; for they knew there was but 
a handful of men upon the island. 

26 Moreover, Britain in her folly had introduced a 
new instrument of destruction, called Congreve Rock¬ 
ets, in honour of their inventor; and these were used 
in grea£ abundance. 

2 7 But they were harmless as turtle doves, for they 
killed not a man. 

2 $ Now the men of Columbia, with their handicraft, 
shot the balls of iron strait as an arrow from a bow, and 
thereby did much damage to the servants of the king. 

29 Inasmuch as they slew about two hundred of the 
men of Britain that day; and-drove the host of them 
from the island. 

.SO So the mighty array of Britain fled in haste to the 
Strong ships, of the king for safety. 

31 Now on the twenty- fifth day of the same month 
the army of Britain went against a tillage called Hamp¬ 
ton, which lieth in the state of Virginia, and took it. 

32 Howbeit, the little band of Columbia, command¬ 
ed by Crutchfield, fought hard against them. 

33 Nevertheless, they prevailed over him, and dew 

seven of his men, and wounded others, upon 'which he 
led; for the men of Britain were like unto a swarm of 
locusts. > 

34 But the blood of two hundred royal invaders be¬ 
came a sacrifice to the wickedness of their leaders. 

35 Oh ! England ! that a veil might be cast over thy 
transgressions of that day: but it cannot be 

36 Thy wickedness shall be written with a pen of 
•iron, and with the point of a diamojSd. 


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8t~ 

:J7 It wasdiere, even in Hampton, that thy strength 
rod thy majesty rose up against the poor, the sick, and 
the needy. 

38 Instead of protecting the tender women, the fair¬ 
est work of God, the-life of the world; behold! what 
hast thou done ? 

39 See! the shrieking matron cast herself into the 
waters that she may escape thy brutal violence : but all 
in vain ; her garments are torn from her; she becomes 
a prey to tby savage lust. 

40 Not she alone, hut her daughter, and her fair sis¬ 
ters, have fallen into thy unhallowed hands, and been de¬ 
filed ! 

41 Oh, Britain ! the voice of violated chastity riseth 
up against thee; the mark of the beast is indelibly 
printed in thy forehead :• 

4.2 Even the old and weak men became victims o i 
thy barbarity; thy servants stripped the aged Hope,, 
and buffeted him; with the point of their swords did 
they torment him. 

43 Do the groans of the murdered Kirby creep into 
thine ears ? go thou and repent of thine evil, and do so 
no more : the Lord God of Hosts shall be thy judge; 

44 The generous people of Columbia may possibly 
forgive thy crimes against them ; but the remembrance 
thereof shall live to the end of time ; neither shall thay 
forget the name of Cockburu 



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CHAP. XXII. 

Russian* mediation-^Baiuird and Gallatin sail for St . 
Petersbio'gk — the British compelled to abandon the 
sie/M of • Fort Me igs. 

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JL HE lofty eagle ciitteth the air with his wings, and 
znoveth rapidly along ; the fish of the deep glide swiftly 
through the waters; the timid deer bounds through the 
thick forests with wonderful speed i 

2 But Imagination surpasseth them all; she rideth 
the fleet winds j she holdeth a stream of lightning in 

hef hand. 

3 In an instant she flieth from the frozen mountains of 
Zembla, in the regions of the north, to the burning sands 
of Africa in the torrid zone. 

4 Now the sons of Columbia w r ere peace-makeTs ; 
neither did their footsteps follow after warfare. 

5 And, it is written in the holy scriptures, Blessed 
are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the chil¬ 
dren of God. 

6 So the great Sanhedrim of the people sent two of 
the wise men of Columbia, the one named Gallatin and 
the other Bayard, into a distant country : 

7 Even unto the extensive country of Russia, that 
there they might meet the wise men of Britain, and heal 
the wounds of the nations, -and make peace with one 
another. 


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S But the people of Britain yielded not to the entrea¬ 
ties of the great Sanhedrim • therefore tlie war continued 
to rage. 

9 So it came to pass, on the .fifth day of the fifth 
month, in the pleasant season of the year; when the 
trees put forth their leaves and the air is perfumed with 
the sweet scent of flowers, and the blue violets bespread 
the green hillocks ; 

20 That Harrison, thcpchief captainj/rom the west 
the brave warrior, who had entrenched himself in the 
strong hold of Meigs, nigh unto the river Miami, sallied 
forth against the savages and the men of Britain, that 
hemmed him in. 

11 Now there were about a thousand soldiers of the 
king, and a thousand savages that had besieged the forr 
many days : and threw therein the balls of destruction, 

and strove to make captive the army of Columbia. 

12 Nevertheless, Harrison, and his gallant little band, 
fought hard against them, and drove them from before 
the strong hold with great slaughter. 

13 Likewise, the slain of Columbia was about four 
score, besides the wounded. 

14 Moreover, the chief captain gave great honour to 
Miller and all the captains and soldiers under him; even 
those called militia. 

15 Aud the names of the states of Ohio and 
Kentucky were raised high, by the valiant acts of their 
s^ns that day. 


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chap. rxni. 


'’’Surrender of Fort George and Fort Eric io the Amer 
icans — Gen- Brown drives the British from before 
Sacketfs Harbour with great loss- — Gens. B inder 
mnd Chandler made prisoners at Forty-mile Creek . 



twenty-seventh day of the same 


month, being thirty days after Zebulon had gone to sleep 
with his fathers, 

. ji Henry, whose sir-name was Dearborn, and Lew¬ 
is,* the chief captains of the army of Columbia, and 
Chatmcey the commander of the fleet of the United 
States, that moved on the waters of the great lake Onr 
tario,essayed to go against Fort George and Fort Erie, 
in the province of the king. 

,3 For they had previously concerted their plan and 
matured it 5 and taken on board the ships, the army of 
dolumbia, and a number of the destroying engines. 

4 And when the vessels of Chauncey came nigh unto 
the place, they let the engines loose upon the fort, with a 
roaring noise. 

5 In the meantime the army landed upon the shore, 
and went against the servants of the king. 


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'6 And the men of Britain were frightened at the 
sound of the warring instruments that reached their 
camp, and they Hed in dismay towards the stroug hold 
pf Queenstown. 

7 And they destroyed their tents, and their store¬ 
houses, and put a match to the black dust of their magar 
sines, and blew them up into the air : this they did even 
f^om Chippewa to Albino. 

<8 Moreover, the slain and wounded of the king were 
two hundred two score and ten $ of the men of Colum¬ 
bia about three score were slain and maimed. 

‘9 So the forts of George and Erie were captured by 
4 he army and navy of the United States. 

30 And Henry and Isaac, whose sir-name w^s 
jChauncey, spake well of all the captains and men that 
fought with them. 

11 The gallant captains Scott and Forsyth fought, 
bravely ; neither, were they afraid. 

12 Boyd, and M : Comb, and Winder, and Chandler, 
and Porter, and a host of heroes, turned not aside from 
|he heat of the battle. 

13 And here the noble spirit of the youthful Perry 
burst forth. into view ; a man made to astonish the 
•world, and shower down glory upon the arms of Colum¬ 
bia. 

14 Now it happened about the same time, that the 
stroug ships of Britain moved towards the other end 
0 f the lake, to the cast thereof, and went against a place 
galled Sackett-s Harbor. 

13 r phe fleet of the king was* commanded by a chief 
captain whoso name was \ eo ; and Pre\ost, the go¬ 
vernor of Canada, commYindcrl the army. 

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16 And on the morning of the twenty-ninth diiy’-'df 
the month, they landed more than a thousand men on 
the shores of Columbia. 

1 7 Ilowbeit, a certain valiant man, even Jacob, 
whose sir-name was Brown, commanded the host of 
Columbia that went against them : 

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18 And Jacob, albeit a man of peace,* drove the 
men of Britain, and compelled them to flee rapidly 
from the shore, and get them into their vessels. 

19 So Prevost and Yeo returned to the strong hold 
af Kingston. 

20 And the skill of Jacob, in driving away the sol¬ 
diers of the king, pleased the people, and they honoured 
him greatly. 

21 Not many days after these things, there was-a 
sore battle fought, near to a place called Forty-mile 
Creek. 

22 And it was so that Winder and Chandler, two 
brave captains of the United States, and about four 
score men, were come upon unawares in the darkness 
of the night, and made captive by the servants of the 
king. 

23 After which they were conveyed to the strong 
hold of Montreal, which lieth in the province of Cana¬ 
da, on the river St. Lawrence. 

24 The officers and soldiers of Columbia fought 
bravely, and there were many slain and wounded on 
both sides: 

25 Nevertheless, the army of the United States 
rested tiigh unto the place. 

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• CHAT. XXIV. 

-■Capture of the Chesapeake-—Commodore Dccaiia 
blockaded in Ncw-JLr.-- don. 


N these days the pride of Britain was sorely 'wound 
ed; for she had been discomfited upon the waters of 
the great deep; and disappointment had sharpened kw 
■anger. 

2 The people of (Columbia had triumphed over h<Ji 
ships ; and her mighty armies had gained no honors. 

S Notwithstanding she had made peace with the na¬ 
tions of Europe, and her whole strength was turned 
against the people of Columbia. 

4 The prosperity of many hundred years had flatten¬ 
ed her, and she .was puffed up w ith the vanity?-thereof^ 
yea, she had forgotten herself. 

5 So it came to pass, on the first day of the sixth 
month, that a certain strong ship of the king, called 
the Shannon, appeared before the haven of Boston^ 
which lieth to the east. 

6 And she bade defiance to the vessels of Columbia y 
for she had prepared herself for the event. 

Now the Chesapeake, a fighting ship of the United 
.States, \j;as nigh unto the place ; and she was command¬ 
ed by the brave Lawrence, who had gained much honor 
ib the sight of the people j neither w as he afraid. 


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8 And lie went forth to battle against the vessel of 
the king, which was commanded by Broke, a valiant 
man. 

9 Moreover, the mischievous engines that were in the 
ship of Britain were ipore, and the number of their men 
greater than those of the vessel of the United States. 

10 For Broke had gotten about two/^hundred men, 
and secreted them; so that when the hour of danger ar¬ 
rived they might assist his men, and fall unawares upon 
the men of Lawrence. 

.11 Nevertheless, towards the going down of the sun, 
the vessels drew nigh to each other. 

12 And Lawrence spake unto his officers and bis 
mariners, saying; 

13 Now shall we set our engines at the work of de¬ 
struction ; let the fire issue out of their jnonths, as it 
\vere like unto fiery dragons. 

14 And although*.their numbers l>c greater v than ours, 
yet we may be conquerors ; for he who is little of spirit 
ga^neth nothing. 

la But if, peradventure, we should, be overcome, 
even then shall not the sacred' cause of Liberty per¬ 
ish, neither shall, the people of Columbia be. disheart¬ 
ened. 

16 Also, your names .shall be recorded as the chain? 
pions of freedom. 

17 And the nations of the earth shall learn with as-, 
tonishment, how dearly you, prize the inheritance of your 
fathers. 

18 Now when Lawrence had made an end of speak¬ 
ing, they sat the destroying engines to work, a$d rushed 

, 6ne uppa another like fierce tygers. 


1 9 The fiFe and smoke were abundant, and tremen* 
'dous was the noise that rent the air and floated upon the 

waters. 

20 And the Chesapeake fell close upon the Shannon, 
swords clashed with swords, and pikes with pikes 5 and 
dreadful was the Conflict thereof. 

21 Tut the men of Broke were more numerous than 
the men of Lawrence, and overpowered them, by the 
means of their numbers. 

22 T Already had the valiant Lawrence fallen > his life¬ 
blood flowed fast 5 still he crycd out to his brave compan¬ 
ions, saying unto them, Don't give up the ship; his noble 
spirit fled, but his name shall not perish. 

23 Moreover, about this time all the officers of the 
--ship of the United States were cither slain or sorely 

wounded; so she was captured by the vessel of the king. 

24 And Satan rose up in the hearts of the conqueror^ 
and they shot the balls of death down into the hold of the 
vessel of the United States, even against the halt and 
maimed who had surrendered themselves. 

25 And when the tidings thereof reached the king* 
dom of Great Britain, the lords, the princes, the rulers, 
yes, all the people were rejoiced beyond measure. 

26 And they bade their roaring engines utter their 
voices in London, their chief city, that had been silent 
many years, even those in the great tower,* which was 
built by William the Bastard, more than seven hundred 
.years ago. 


4 On this occasion, they fired their tower guns, which* 
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27 Their joy was unbounded, for they had overcame 
exE of the strong jships of Columbia. 

.28 Now the slain and the wounded on board the 
Chesapeake, wore an hundred two score and four : and 
there fell of the servants of the king about two hun¬ 
dred. 

29 Amongst the .skim of Columbia-were also Augus¬ 
tus, whose sir-name was Ludlow, and another brave 
officer whose name was White. 

30 And when' the people of Columbia heard of a 
truth that Lawrence Was slain, they mourned for him 
many days. 

31 Ilis body was conveyed to a place called Halifax^ 
in the province of the king, where they honoured Ids 
memory, and buried him for a while. 

32 But in a short tune thereafter his body was taken 
out of tne earth, with the body of Ludlow, and convey¬ 
ed to the city of New-York, for interment. 

33 And the captain’s name who volunteered his ser¬ 
vices in this act of patrintism, and who brought the 
bodies away from Halifax/ was Crowningshield, of 
'Salem, in the state of Massachusetts. 

34 So Lawrence was buried in the burial-place ef 
his fathers, in his own land : and a great multitude of 
people went out to behold the funeral as it passed 
through the city. 

35 And his valiant deeds shall live forever in the re¬ 
membrance of the people. 

3f> About this time, on the fourth day,of the month, 
brave Decatur essayed logo forth with his vessel 
upon the waters of the mighty deep. 

37 And the vessels that were with him were called 


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t?fe United States, the Hornet, and the Macedonian; 
the latter a strong ship which he had captured from 
the king. 

38 But- it was so, that some large vessels of Britain*, 
carrying each of them more than seventy of the destroy - 
ing engines, suffered him not to go forth. 

39 Moreover, they wished to retake the Macedonian; 
that they might retrieve iheTsharde of the capture there¬ 
of. 

40 So the ships of Britain blockaded Decatur and 
his ships in the haven of New-London, which licth in 
•the state of Connecticut, Digh unto a place called Stcir- 
ington, and they remained there many .mouths. 




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CHAP. XXV'. 

Capture of Col. Bocrstlcr and Major Chapin icitk their 
command— ‘treatment of Prisoners — Major ■ Ches* 
fids escape. - 


vi OW there was- nlfich hard fighting on the borders, 
for the nations were wroth against one another, and 
many men were-slain by the sword. 

But it is written in the book of Jeremiah the 
prophet, that lie who is slain by the sword, is better 
,than he who is slain by famine. 

3 Nevertheless, many of the soldiers of Columbia 
sufie/ed hunger ; lbr they had given unto them unwhole¬ 
some food, and a scanty fare, 

4 Although, when the servants of the king became 
captives to the people of Columbia, they were kindly 
treated, and partook of the fat of the land. 

5 Now it came to pass, in the second year of the 
war, on the twenty-third day of the sixth month, 

6 That a captain of the United States, whose sir- 
name was Boerstler, w r as ordered to go forth from the 
•strong held of Fort George, to annoy the enemy. 

7 And the name of the place where he essayed to go, 
was called Beaver-dams, being distant from the strong 
hold of Queenstown about seventy furlongs. 



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8 And ,he namber of *he men of war of Columbia 
who followed after him was little more than five him- 
died. 

9 But when they came nigh unto the place, early ink 
the morning of the next day, lo ! they were encompass¬ 
ed round about by the savages and soldiers, of the king. 

10 Nevertheless, they fought bravely for a time ; and 
Dearborn, the chief captain of Fort George, sent the 
valiant Chrystie to help him out of his snare. 

11 But Boerstler and his army had already become 
captive to the men of Britain. 

12 And they made a covenant in writing, between 
erne another, but the men of Britain violated the cove¬ 
nant. 

13 Inasmuch as they permitted the savages to rob the 
officers of their swords, and their apparel, yea, even the 
shoes from off their feet. 

14 After which the men of Columbia were command¬ 
ed to go, in boats, down to the stronghold of Kingston^ 
in the province of the king. 

15 But a certain brave captain, called Chapin,* a 
running man withal, made his escape in a boat, and ar* 
rived at the strong hold of Fort George; having, by 
the strength of his single arm, overpowered three of the 
strong men of Britain. 


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€7HAP. XXVL 

Capture of'fort Schlosser and Black Rock —— -Gert. 
Dearborn resigns Ms command to Gen. Boyd , on 

account of sickness - the Six Nations of Indians 

declare war against Canada. 


J^SLnD it came to pass, oil the fourth day of the seventh 
month, which is the birth day of Columbian Liberty 
and Independence, 

2 In the dark and’solemn hour of the night, when the 
deadly savage walketh abroad, and the hungry wolves 
howl along the forest, 

3 A bah'd’ of the men of Britain crossed over the 
prater from Chippawa to a place called Fort Schlosser, 

4 And there was a handful of the men of tTie United^ 
States in the place, whom they made captive, being 
twelve in number, 

5 Likewise, they carried away the bread and the 
Heat, and some of the strong waters; also one of the ' 
destroying engines. 

6 Moreover, the engine which tliey^ brought away was 
made partly of brass, partly of iron, and partly of wood. 

7 And the weight of the ball that issued out of its 
mouth was about two hundred shekels, after the shekdi j 
of the sanctuary. 




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*b On the tenth day of the same month they also pass- 
.ed over the river Niagara, towards a place called Black 
Rock, and the small band at the place fled. 

9 And they destroyed the strong house, and the 
camp with fire, and carried away the flour, and the salt, 
and such things as they stood in need of. 

10 However, while they were yet carrying thema- 
way, there came a band of men of the United States, 
from the village of Buflaloe, 

] 1 And let their instruments of war loose upon them; 
and smote them even unto death ; albeit, those who weifi 
not slain escaped with their plunder. 

12 And they fled hastily away, leaving nine of their 
slain behind, and more than half a score of cap¬ 
tives. 

13 The soldiers of (he king were commanded by 
two men, the one railed Bishop and the other Warren^ 
and the men of Columbia were commanded by a chief 

. captain, named Porter.* 

14 About, this tim the savages an 1 the men of war 
of Britain assailed the guards and the out-pOsts near 
unto Fort .G* urge 

13 Day after day and night after night did they aa* 
nov them; ai d many were slain on both sides. 

16 And Dearborn, the chief captain of the fort, and of 
the host of Columbia round about Niagara, became sick 
and unable to go out to battle. 

17 So Boyd, a brave and tried warrior, was made 
hief captain in his stead, until Wilkinson, the chief 

captain, arrived: and the gallant Fraser was appointed 
one of his aids. 


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18 Now there were some amongst the tribes ef thfc 
savages, who had been instructed in the ways of God, 
and taught to walk in the path of righteousness; 

19 For the chief governor of the land of Columbia, 
and the great Sanhedrim of the people, had taken them 
under their care. 

20 And sent good men amongst them to preach the 
gospel, and instruct them in the-sublime doctrine of the 
Saviour of the world. 

21 And they hearkened unto the preachers, and W'ere 
convinced, and their natures were softened. 

22 Amongst these tribes were those who w r ere called 
Che Six nations of New York Indians ; 

23 And their eyes w r ere opened, and they saw the 
evil and wickedness of Britain. 

24 So their chiefs and their counsellors rose up and 
made war against the province of Canada, and fought 
against the hired savages of he king of Britain. 

25 But in all their acts^hey suffered not the spirit of 
barbarians to rule over them. 

26 They remembered the good counsel given to them 
by their aged chief.* 

27 And when the red savages and the men of Britain 
fell into their hands, they raised neither the tomahawk 
nor the scalping knife. 

28 Nay, they treated them kindly • and those who 
were slain in battle they disturbed not; and their human¬ 
ity exceeded the humanity of the white men of Britain. 


* Alluding to an eloquent speech , delivered about 
riw tm€} t0 ^ SiX Natimis ’ b y oneof their old leaf. 




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CHAP. XXVIL 

Affairs on Lake Ontario , between the fleets of Com 
Chauncey and Sir James Yeo. 


•In those days, the great waters of the lake Ontario 
were troubled with the movements of the fighting ships 
of Columbia, as well as those of the king. 

£ Now the fleet of the king, which was commanded 
by Yeo, who was a skilful captain, was greater than the 
• fleet of Columbia, which was commanded by the brave 
Chauncey. 

3 And they had contrived to move to and fro uppn the- 
bosom of the lake Ontario many months, 

4 And two of the small vessels, called the Julia and 
/the Growler, being parted from the fleet, fell> into the 

hands of Yeo. 

5 Nevertheless, Chauncey, followed after Ye©, an$ 

, hemmn|liim in for a time. 

6 L>ut a strong west.wind,arose and the fleets were 
again separated. 

7 After this Chauncey captured a number of small' 
fighting vessels, and about three hundred soldiers of the 
king. 

S Now it was so, that when Yeo put/his fleet in battle 
array, as though lie, would*fight, 

9 Then Chauncey went out against him, to meethirrv 
and give him battle ; but the heart of Yeo failed hip 
and he turned aside from the ships of Columbia. 

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10 So Chauncey sailed along the borders of the Iak% 
from the one end to the other ; even from Niagara te 
Sackett’s Harbour, and Yeo followed him not. 

11 Now all the vessels of the king, and all the ves¬ 
sels of the United States, that carried the destroying en¬ 
gines, upon the lake Ontario, being numbered were about 
seventeen. 

12 Howsoever, they cut down the tall trees of the 
forest, and hewed them, and built many more strong 

vessels ; although they had no gophar-wood amongst 
them in these days. 

13 And they made stories to them, even to the third 
story, and they put windows in them, and they pitched 
them within and without with pitch 5 after the fashion of 
the ark. 

14 And, lo! some of the ships which they built upon 
the lake, carried about an hundred of the engines of 
death. 

15 And the weight of a ball which they vomited forth 
Was about a thousand shekels. 

16 Now the rest of the acts of Chauncey and Yeo* 
which they did, are they not written in the book of Pal¬ 
mer, the scribe ?* 


* Historical Register , an excellent publication , in 
4 mIs. octavo , printed in Philadelphia , 1816, which 
contains the facts and the official docufnents of the late 
war* 




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chap, x xviH. 


Affairs on Lake Champlain—pillage of Plattsburgh tjj 
the British—bombardment of Burlington — depreda¬ 
tions committed in the Chesapeake , and along the coast 


±\ 0\V the fighting vessels of Britain began to apperir 
upon the lake, called by tl>e ancient Gauls, Champlain. 

2 And the vessels of war of Columbia that were npot 
the waters of the lake were not yet prepared for the 
battle; the name of their commander was M’Donongh, 
a stripling. 

3 So, it came to. pass, on the thirty and first day of 
the seventh month, that the vessels of the king came for- 
.ward against Plattsburgh, which lietli on the borders of 
the lake. 

4 And there were none to defend the place; for the 
•army of Hampton, a chief captain of the United Stateg, 

was encamped upon the opposite side of the lake, at a 
place called Burlington, in the state of Vermont. 

5 And the number of the soldiers of the king that lanch 
ed at Plattsburgh was more than.a thousand men, arid 
the name of their chief captain was Murray. 

6 And a captain of the United States, whose name 
jtfas Mooers; a man of valor.; strove to gather together 


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the husbandmen • of the place ; but they W£?e not 
nough. 

7 So the army of the king captured the place; and 
the men of Columbia fled before the men of Britain. 

8 Moreover, the wickedness, which had been commit¬ 
ted at Hampton,was noised abroad, even from the 
shores of Virginia to lake Champlain. 

9 Accordingly, all the women and children, who 
.-were able, suddenly departed from the place, lest the 

same thing might, peradventure, happen unto them. 

10 Neither were they deceived in judgment; for, lot* 
when the place w as given up, and a covenant made, the 

servants of the king proved faithless. 

11 They abided not by the contract; saying, Pish ! ye. 
^are but 3 'ankees, therefore will we do to you as seemeth 

meet unto us ! 

12 So they burnt the houses, and all other things be¬ 
longing to the United States, with fire. 

13 After which they fell upon the merchandise, the 
-goods, and the chatties of all manner of persons; nay the 
persons of some of the women were abused : 

14 Meanwhile they forced others to put the burning 
brand to their own dwellings j or pay them tribute. 

15 They killed the cattle, and prepared them food ; 
and after they had eaten and drank, they overturned 

• the tables. 

16 So, when their vengeance was completed, they 
departed to other places and committed like evils. 

17 About the same time the vessels of the king that 
. sailed on the lake, went against the town of Burlington, 

where the army of Hampton was. 

18 But w hen the men of Columbia., began to let the 


destroying engines loose upon them, from the strong hold 
before the town, they fled in dismay. 

19 Now while these things were-passing in the north, 
the greedy sons of Britain were laying desolate the small 
villages of the south. 

20 On the waters of the Chesapeake they captured 
the small vessels and made spoil thereof. 

21 Moreover, they.gat possesion of a small place 
called Kent Island, and robbed the poor and needy j for 
there was no mercy in them. 

22 \ ea, it was said of a truth, and talked abroad, that 
they came in the night time, and disturbed the small 
cattle, and the fowls, and took them for their own use, 
and crawled awaydike men ashamed ; 

23 Thus committing a sin, by violating .the eighth 
commandment of God, which saith, Thou shalt not 
steal. 

24 Even the state of North-C<irolina escaped them 
cot ; they ianded a thousand men of war at a place call¬ 
ed Ocracocke. 

25 And again the work of destruction began ; they 
spread terror and dismay whithersoever they went. 

2G They troubledthe men of Columbia ail along the 
sea coast, which is more than eight thousand furlongs, 
from north to south. 

27 Moreover, they gat much plunder ; even much of 
the good things with which the land of Columbia 
abounded 


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CIIA? XXIX. 

Major Croghan defeats the, British and Indians, under 
Gen. Proctor, in their attack on Fort Stephenson , 
,Lower Sandusky. 


E VERTHELESS, it came to pass, that Harisoa, 
the chief captain of the north west army, had placed 
a captain, a young man, in the hold called Jb.ort Stephen- 


€on, to defend it. 

2 Now the font lieth at the western end of the great 
lake -'rie, at a place called ' amiusky. 

3 Ami number the soldiers that ware with the 


youth in the held was about m hundred Vtld three SCelcy 
and they had only one of the destroying engines. 

4 Now the name of the young maiv was George, and 
rhis sir-name was Croghan. 

5 So, on the first day of the eighth month, about the 
going down of the sun, a mighty host from Malden ap¬ 
peared before the hold ; 

G Even a thousand savages, and about five hundred 
men of war of Britain ; and Proctor was the commands 
thereof. 

7 Moreover, they brought the Instruments »f destruc¬ 
tion in great plenty even howitzers, which were net 
Jknown in the days of the children of Israel. 

8 And they had prepared themselves for the fight 1 



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atnf encompassed the place round about, both by land 
and by water. 

9 After which Proctor sent a message to the brave 
Croghan, by a captain whose name was Elliot, and the 
words thereof were in this sort : 

10 Lo ! now ye can neither move to the right nor to* 
the left, to escape, for we have hemmed you in 5 

11 The re fare, that your blood may not be spilt in vain v 
we command that ye give up the strong hold into tk<- 
hands of the servants of the king, and become captives. 

12 We have the destroying engines in abundance, and 
we are a numerous host. 

13 Furthermore, if ye refuse thCn shall the wild sa ¬ 
vages be let loose upon you ; and there shall be none left 
among you to go and tell the tidings' thereof. 

14 But when Croghan heard the mes^ige, lie answer¬ 
ed and said unto Elliot, Get thee now to thy chief cap¬ 
tain, and say unto him, I refuse ; neither will I hearken 
unto him : 

15 And if it be so, that he come against me with his 
whole host, even then wiil I not turn aside from the 
fierce battle$ though his numbers were as the sand on* 
the sea shore. 

16 Lo ! David, of old, with a sling and a stone, slew 
fhe mighty Goliah : and shall the people of Columbia be 
afraid, and bow before the tyrants of Europe ? 

17 Then Elliot returned to the army of the king $ and 
immediately the mouths of their engines were opened 

^against the fort. 

18 And the noise thereof continued a long time; even 
iptil the next day ; but their battering prevailed not. 

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vided his host info two bands, and appointed a captain to 
each band ; and they moved towards the fort and assail¬ 
ed it with great violence. 

20 But the men of Croghan were prepared for them ; 
and they let loose their weapons of war upon them, and 
set their destroying engine to work, and smote the men 
of Britain, hip and thigh, with great slaughter. 

21 And the deep ditch that surrounded the fort was 
strewed with their slain and their wounded. 

22 So the host of Britain were dismayed and over¬ 
thrown, and fled in confusion from the fort into the for. 
est; from whence, in the dead of the night, they went in¬ 
fo their vessels, and departed from the place. 

23 Now the loss of the men of Britain was about an 
hundred t wo score and ten ; and of the men of Columbia 
there was one slain audseven wounded. 

24 But when Proctor had rested his army lie sent a 
skilful physician to heal the maimed which he had fled 
from and left behind. 

2a But H udson, the chief captain, said unto him, Al¬ 
ready have my physicians bound up their wounds, and 
given them bread and wine, and comforted them 
after the manner of our country. 

2d For we suffer not the captives that fall into our 
hands to be buffeted or maltreated $ neither want they 
for any thing. 

27 ido the physician of the king’s army was permitted 
to return to his own camp. 

28 Moreover, great honor and praise w'ere bestowed 
upon the brave Croghan, the captain of the fort, for his 
valiant deeds; and his name w r as spoken of with joy 
throughout the land of Columbia. 



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CHAP. XXX. 


British schooner Dominica, of 14 Guns, captured by 
the privateer Decatur, of 7 guns — U. S. brig Argus 
captured bp the Pelican—capture of the Boxer by 
the U. S. brig Enterprize. 


_L>i OW the war continued to rage without abatement 
upon the waters of the great deep ; 

J And manifold were the evils that came upon the 
children of men by the means thereof. 

d M oreover, the great Sanhedrim of the people 
w i re* forced to bestir themselves ; and they had con¬ 
tinued their councils day after day without ceasing. 

4 And it caine to pass, that there was a dreadful 
battle fought between a vessel of the king, and a private 
vessel of Columbia. 

5 And the name of the vessel that fought was De¬ 
catur, and the captain's name was Diron, a Gaul. 

(> And it was so, that about the fourth day of the 
eighth month, the Decatur having sailed out of the ha¬ 
ven of Charleston, being in the state of South Carolina, 
fell in with one of the fighting vessels of the king, called 
the Dominica. 

7 lint the destroying engines of the king's vessel 
were two fold greater in numbers than those «f the 
Decatur. 


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8 Nevertheless, they set them fa work, so that they 
groaned beneath the fire and smoke 

9 And in about the space of an hoilr the Dominica 
was conquered and taken captive. 

10 For when the' vessels came close together, the 
men smote one another w r ith their swords and weapons 
of war ; yea, even the balls of iron they cast at each 
other, with their hands, and slew one another with 
wonderful slaughter. 

11 Inasmuch as there were slain and maimed of the 
king three score souls ; those of the Decatur were 
aBout a score : moreover the captain of the Dominica 
was slain; 

12 The light Was an unequal one ; and the bravery* 

of Diroii gained him a great name, for he overcame the 
enemies of freedom ; although their force was greater 
than his. . . 

13 After this, on the fourteenth day of the same 
month, there was another sore battle between a small 
vessel of the United States, called the Argus and the 
Pelican, a ship of the king. 

14 Now the Pelican was somewhat stronger than the 
Argus, and they were stubborn and kept the destroying 
engines to work, with great noise about forty and five 
ariinutes. 

15 And the brave Captain of the Argus, whose name 
was Allen, was wounded unto death, and the vessel of 
Columbia was captured by the ship of Britain, the name 
©f the commander whereof was Maples. 

16 01 the men of Columbia six were slain and 
seventeen wounded ; of the men of Britain tire slum 
and wounded were five. 


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27 Now the dea-h of Allen was spoken of with sor¬ 
row throughout the land of Columbia, for he had de~ 
1 tended the vessel of the United States nobly,$ and cap- 
1 . tured some merchant ships of Britain. 

18 Even the enemy regarded him for his bravery^ 
l for they buried him with honour in their own country, 

not far from the place where he became xaptive, which 
was in the waters of the king, even in St. George’s 
"Channel. 

19 But it came to pass, on the fifth day of. the next 
month, in the same year, 

20 That a certain small vessel of Columbia, carrying 
the engines pf destruction, commanded by a gallant 

1 -man, whose name was Burrows, fell in with an 
other small vessel of the king, called the Boxer and 
the captain thereof was a brave man, and his name w as 
Blythe. 

21 In the language N of the people of the land, the 
vessel of Columbia was called the Enterprize. 

22 Now when the vessels drew nigh unto each other 
the men shouted with loud shouting. 

23 And immediately they let the mischievous engines 
loose upon one another, with a noise like unto thunder. 

24 But it happened, that in about the space of forty 
minutes, the Boxer was overcome 5 but she was taken 
somewdiat unawares: 

25 For, lo ! the pride of the men of Britain had mad# 
them foolish : and, thinking of the cpnquest, they nailed 
Britannia’s red-cross to the mast of the vessel. 

2G Whereupon, after they were overcome, they cried 
idoud for mercy, j>ayiDg ; 






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27 Behold! our colors are fast; and we cannot 
quickly unloose them; nevertheless, we will be prisoners 
unto you, therefore spare us. 

28 So the brave mariners of Columbia spared them, 
and stopped the destroying engines ; for their hearts 
were inclined to mercy. 

29 However, this was another bloody fight; for 
there fell of the men of Britain forty that were slain out¬ 
right, and seventeen were wounded. 

SO And the loss of Columbia in slain and maimed 
was about fourteen. 

31 And the commanders of both vessels were slai _ } 
and they^ buried them with honor in the town of Po 
land, which leaveth Boston to the west; for the bati 
was fought hard by. 

32 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim was pleased w 
the thing, and gave unto the nearest kinsman of Burro 
a medal of gold, in token of remembrance thereof.* 


* Mathew L. Davis, of New-York , a printe 
a patriot, and a philanthropist, on a tour in the caste 
States , passing through Portland and the burial pit 
of Burrows (which was without a memorial,)bei; 
pointed out to him, generously delayed his jown 
until, at his own expense, he had caused a monum 
to be erected over the grave of the valiant ; wit 
bears the following inscription, equally creditable 
the modest merit of Mr. Davis,—to his heady am 
Ms kecD't: 



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ciiap. xxxi. 

The 'capture o f the British Fleet oh Lake Erie , bp the 
American Fleet, under Com. Perry. 


np 

-Ji~ IIE Lord, in the plenitude of his wisdom and pow- 
*;daineth all things which come to pass: jand the 

are ibr the benefit of man, and for the glory of 
A 
; < 

For where is the evil which hath not turned to an nd- 
/ ige, and been a warning, and swallowed up the evil 
I * might have come ? 


EENEATH THIS STONE 
Moulders 
THE BODY OF 

W ILL IA M BURR 0 W S, 

Late Commander of the 


W 


•NITED STATES’ BRIG ENTERPRISE, 

> was mortally wounded on the 3th of September 
>13, in. an action, which contributed to increase 
the fame of American valour, by capturing his 
BRIT. MAJESTY’S BRIG BOXER, 


after a severe contest of 43 minutes, 
i issing stranger has erected this monument of respect 
the manes of a patriot, who in the hour of peril, 
>eved the loud summons of an injured country, and 
• ..ho gallantly met, fought and eompicreJ the foenum 





110 


HISTORICAL 


$ Now about this time the strong vessels of Columbia 
that moved upon the face of the blue waters of the great 
lake Erie, were given in charge to Oliver, whose sir- 
name was Perry. 

4 And he was a prudent man,and had prepared him¬ 
self to meet the vessels of the king, even forty days before¬ 
hand. 

5 And the name, of of the captain of the fleet of Bri¬ 
tain was Barclay, a man of great valor ; but he boasted 
and was vain of his fleet, for it was more powerful 
than the fleet of Columbia. 

6 Nevertheless, it came to pass, in the one thousand 
eight hundred and thirteenth year, on the tenth day of 
the ninth month, early in the morning, about the rising 
of the sun, 

7 The valiant Perry beheld the fleet of the king at a 
distance upon the lake; so he unmoored his vessels 
and went out to meet t*hem in battle array, fleet against 
fleet. 

. V •• ' . 

8 And when their white sails were spread upon the 
fcosom of the lake, they appeared like unto a squadron of 
passing clouds. 

9 A gentle breeze wafted the hostile vessels towards 
©ne another. 

10 It w r as silence upon the waters; save when the 
sound of musical instruments fell sweetly upon the 
ear. 

11 But it happened, a little before the mid-day, that 
the shouts of the men of war of Britain were heard, and 
the shouts of the men of Columbia. 

12 And now the destroying engines began to utter 


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therr thunders Vomiting forth fire and smoke and brim¬ 
stone in abundance. 

13 And suddenly tire waters were in an uproar ; and 
the bellowing noises sounded along the lake. 

14 Moreover, the chief force of the ships of the king 
was put against the vessel in which Perry was ; 

13 And the vessel was called the Lawrence, after a 
brave man, whose dying words waved upon her aloft 

16 Now, behold, a thousand balls of iron skim tlie 
surface of the waters, swift as shooting stars. 

17 But when the battle waxed hot, and Perry saw 
that the tackling of his vessel was shot away, and his men 
were slain and wounded with great slaughter, and his des¬ 
troying engines became silent, 

18 He put the charge of the vessel into the hands of 
one of his officers, whose name was Yarned, a trusty man > 

19 Then, with the starry banner of Columbia in hi3 
hand, did the gallant Perry leap into his cock-boat, while 
his brave mariners quickly conveyed him to another 
fighting vessel of the United States called the Niagara, 
commanded by a valiant man, whose name was Elliot. 

20 After this again the vessels uttered their thunders 
and fought hard, and the men of Columbia poured out 
destruction upon the servants of the king. 

21 And it came to pass, that the skilful contrivance of 
Perry, and the bravery of his men, at length forced the 
whole fleet of the king to become captive—even unto tlie 
cock boats of Columbia. 

22 Thus again was the mighty lion humbled before 
tlie eagle : for six strong vessels of Britain were overcome 

iat one time. 



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: M2 

2 3 And the slain and wounded of the king that day, 
was about an hundred thirty and five • beside there were 
a thousand prisoners. 

24 The loss of the United States was twenty and se- 
< ven that were killed, and four score and ten were wound¬ 
ed. 

25 Moreover, the number of the men of Britain made 
captive was more than all the men of Perry’s squadron, 

26 Now Perry was a righteous man, and like the good 
Samaritan, took care of the halt and maimed, and put 
•skilful men to bind up their wounds; and the men of 
Britain blessed him. 

2 7 Neither was lies man pitted up with vanity, even 
in the hour of victory ; 

28 For when he had conquered the lleet of Britain, 
he wrote to Jones,* one of the scribes of the great San¬ 
hedrim, with modesty, saying, 

29 To day it hath pleased the Lord that the people of 
Columbia should triumph over their enemies. 

30 At the same time he wrote to Harrison, the chief 
captain of the host of Columbia, whose army w as at the 
bay of Sandusky, saying, We have met the enemy, and 
they are ours ! 

31 I hen did the enemies of£k>£umbia weep : and the 
gainsayer put on deep mourning. 

32 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim honored Perry with 
great honor; and gave him medals, with devices curious¬ 
ly wrought. 

33 Likewise, the people gave him much silver plate, 
with gravings thereon, mentioning his deeds. 

34 And the bve-stander might read ins triumph in his 
country’s eyes 


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35 llis sons shall hear him spoken of with pleasure , 
•and his name shall be mentioned in the song of the virgins. 

3o Where, oh ! Bratain, are now thy mighty admi¬ 
rals ? where thy Nelson ? where the transcendant glosy 
they gained for thee ? 

37 Alas ! it hath expired upon the waters of Erie be¬ 
fore the destroying engines of Perry ? 


* W. Jones , Secretory of the Navy. 



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CHAP. XXXIL 

Capture of Malden and Detroit—the army of Gen . 
Proctor retreat towards the Moravian towns — Gcti* 
Harr ison pursues them . 


INI OW when Perry had taken care of the captives, 
and the Grounded, and set them upon the shore, 

2 He began to convey the army of Harrison from 
. Fort Meigs and round about. 

3 And, haying gathered-them together into his vessels,, 
..he brought them, and landed them nigh unto the strong 

hold of Malden. 

4 And it came to pass, the twetnty-third day of 
the same month, in which Perry conquered the fleet of 
Britain, 

5 That IIarrison r the chief captain, began to march 
the host of Columbia against the strong hold of Malden, 
and captured a to\yn called Amherstburg, nigh there¬ 
unto. 

6 Now Proctor was the chief captain of the savages 
and servants of the king. 

7 And when he saw the men of Columbia approach, 
he destroyed the fort, the tents, and the store-house? 
of the king, and, with his whole host, fled swiftly 
towards Sandwich. 



£ And Harrison, and the host of Columbia, followed 
hard after him. 

9 Now when the savages of the wilderness beheld 
the men of Britain flee before the warriors of Columbia^ 
their spirits sunk, and they were sore amazed.* 

10 Moreover, they upbraided the servants of the king, 
saying? Lo 1 ye have deceived us, and led us from our 
hunting grounds, and we are an hungered. 

11 For, verily, ye promised us bread and wine,f and 
silver and gold ; yea, even that we should drink ofthe 
strong waters of Jamaica, if we would go out with you 
and fight the brattles of the king, against the men of 
Columbia. 

12 But, behold ! now ye would run away and leave 

to fight alone. 

13 Whereupon many of their tribes cast away their 
tomahawks, and refused to fight under the banners of 

the king. 

14 And when Harrison came to Sandwich, Proctor 
&nd his army had departed from the place, and fled to¬ 
wards the river Thames, near Moravian Town. 

15 (Now the Thames emptieth its waters into the 
lake St. Clair, and the Moravian Towns lie upon the 
river, about au hundred miles from Malden, towards the 
north, in the prov ince of Upper Canada.) 

16 Moreover, as they journied on, the brave M’Ar¬ 
thur crossed over with his band to the strong hold of 
Detroit, and took it. 


* See TefiMmseh’s letter to Proctor. 
f At this time the British army were short of supplies?. 





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17 But the savages and the men of Britain had de¬ 
stroyed those things which they could not carry away, 
and fled in haste. 

18 So M’Arthur, in whom the chief captain put 
much faith, remained at Detroit in the charge thereof. 

19 And it came to pass, when Harrison saw that the 
host of Britain fled before him, he departed from Sand¬ 
wich and went after them ; it being on the second day 
of the next month. 

20 A,nd his whole army followed after him, in all a- 
bout three thousand brave men from the back-woods ol 
the state of Kentucky and the pleasant villages of 
Ohio. 

21 Now Harrison was a mighty man of valor, and no 
man could make him afraid 5 and the captains and offi¬ 
cers that -were with him were all valiant men. 

22 And, when some of his captains said unto him, Lo ! 
there is a feast to day: go thou and partake thereof, 
and refresh thyself, and we will watch ; 

23 He answered and said unfo them, Nay, shall I g& 
and riot, whilst the warriors of Columbia lie on the fro¬ 
zen ground ? 

24 No, their fate shall be my fate ; and their glory 
shall be my glory. 

25 So he wrapped himself in his cloak, and lay down 
in his own tent. 

26 And the husbandmen of Kentucky were led on 
by their valiant governor, whose name was Shelby, 
and he was a man w^ell stricken in years ; even at the 
age of threescore did he go out against the enemies of Co 
kimhiaj and all the people rejoiced in him. 


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27 And the gallant Perry staid not behind ; but freely 
offered his strength, and was one of the right hand men 
ot Harrison, with whom iie followed after the host of 
Britain/ 

2S Nevertheless, it happened that a band of the sa¬ 
vages strove to give hindrance to the army of Columbia; 

But the men of Columbia let two of the destroying 
engines loose upon them, and they fled into the wilde*^ 
n£$s like wild deer. 



HISTORICAL 


in- 


CHAP. XXXIII. 

Battle of the Thames—Gen. Harrison captures the 
British army under Gen Proctor—illuminations out 
account of it—news of it received in England. 


J\-ND it came to pass, op the fifth day of the s me 
month, that Proctor, with the savages and the army of 
the king, rested upon advantageous ground, on the 
banks of the river Thames, 

2 Where he drew his army up in the order of battik, 
after the fashion of these days, and prepared himself to 
meet the host of Columbia. 

3 Now the army of Proctor was mighty ; for he had 
a thousand horsemen: but the number of the savages 
that follo wed after him are not known to this time; how- 
beit, they were many. 

4 And they were under the charge of a chief warrior, 
tvhom they called Tecumseh, a savage whom the king 
$ad made a chief captain.* 

5 And it came to pass, on the same day, in the latter 
part of the day ; that the army of Harrison drew nigh 
iiuto the place. 


* Brig* General 



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6 And he called together his captains of fifties, .and 
liis squadrons, and encouraged them, and commanded 
them to prepare themselves for the fight. 

7 And he put the host of Columbia in battle array 
against the host of Britain, army against army. 

8 Now the sound of-the trumpet, the cymbal, the 
dmgle-horn, and the noisy drum, echoed through the 
deep wilderness. 

9 And the red savages appeared in the field before 
the men of Britain, for they had put them as a shield, 
in the front of the battle. 

10 And they yelled with dreadful yellings, and sound¬ 
ed aloud the war-whoop, which was the signal of death. 

11 But the army of Columbia rushed upon them 
with the fierceness of lions. 

12 And the weapons of war were used without mer¬ 
cy ; the foxes and the beavers crept into iheir holes, for 
the destroying engines frightened the wild beasts, §o 
that they looked for their hiding places. 

13 The gallant Johnson* fell upon them with a 
band of chosen horsemen, and he drove them before 
him like chaff before.the wind, and smote their chief 
warrior,f and slew him with his own hand, so that he 
fell to the earth. 

14 And the host of Columbia assailed the men ojf 
Britain on all sides, and overcame them, and made them 
prisoners of war j whereupon tlie engines ceased to utter 
their thunders,. 


* Col. Johnson , of the Kentucky light-horse. 
t Tecumsch ; who was at that moment in the act uf 
shotting the colonel » " *■ 



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•220 

15 Howbeit, Proctor escaped, on a swift running 
horse, with a handful of his captains that were under 
him. 

16 Now the number of prisoners captured by the ar¬ 
my of Harrison that day were about six hundred. 

17 And the slain'and wounded of the men of Britain 
were thirty and three; and the same number of savages 
were slain. 

18 Of the army of Columbia seven were slain and 
two score and two were wounded. 

29 But the men of Kentucky and Ohio, whose sons 
and brothers and fathers had been inhumanly slaughter¬ 
ed at the River Raisin, slew not a single captive. 

20 But they treated them as men ; thus rendering 
good for evil, accordingdo the word of the Lord 

21 Moreover, they captured six of the destroying en¬ 
gines that were made of brass, and two that were made 
©f iron ; besides many weapons of war. 

22 New three of the bras* engines were those given 
to the men of Britain, at the capture of Detroit, the first 
year of the war, and were the same that had been taken 
from the king in the days of Washington. 

23 Soon after the battle, Harrison returned with his 
army to Detroit, where many of the savages had assem¬ 
bled, to repent of their evils, and ask for mercy from the 
chief captain. 

24 So Harrison made a covenant with them, and 
they were thankful, and gave him hostages. 

25. Now there were great rejoicings in the land of 
Columbia, and the hearts of the people were exceeding 


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wv 

26 So that .when the news thereof reached them 
: they drank wine; and when the evening came they 

lighted their candles, and put them in candlesticks of 
{silver and candlesticks of gold, and placed them in the 
windows of their houses. 

27 And there were many thousands of them ; and the 
light thereof was as though the stars had fallen from 

. heaven. 

28 This did they throughouLthe land of Columbia, 
from the district of Maine, in the east, to the state pf 
Georgia, in the south. 

29 And, when the Prince Regent, and the chief 
^counsellors, and the wise men of Britain, heard the ti¬ 
dings, for a truth, that their fleet and their army were 
captured, they were astonished beyond measure. 

30 They looked at one another like men who had 
lost their ..wits : they were silent, and their tongues 
clave to the roof,of their mouths. 

31 Their knees smote one against .another, , for the 
strength of Britain- was shaken; her valiant warriors 
had lost their honour ;* and her glory was outshone. 

32 Now there was great honour and praise bestowed 
upon Harrison for his courage, and his valiant acts ; and 
the people remembered his name with pleasuie. 

33 Moreover, be gave great praise to Shelby, the 
governor, and Perry, and Johnson, and all the brave 
men that were with him. 


* Doubly lost it: by water and, by land; by being 
conquered, and by being cruel. 









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34 And in the same month, when the object of the 
army was fulfilled, the husbandmen of Columbia return¬ 
ed every man to his own house. 

35 But Harrison and Perry, and the band of war¬ 
riors of the great Sanhedrim, went into their vessels. 

36 And they moved from Detroit, and came in the 
ships of Perry, to Buffaloe, nigh unto the river Niaga¬ 
ra, to meet Wilkinson, who came from the south, 
and was appointed chief captain of ft 16 army of the 
centre* 


header. 


128 


CHAP. XXXIV. 


t 

War itiith the Creek Nation of Indians—massacre at 
Fort Mimms — Georgia and Tennessee militia, under 
General Jackson retaliate . 


JS^OW it came to pass, while these things were going 
on in the north, and the repentant savages laid theft 
murderous weapons at the feet of Harrison, 

2 That the servants of the king were stirring up the 

Spirit of Satan in the savages Cf the wilderness of the 
south; 4 

3 And placing the destroying engines into their hands 
that they might shed the blood of the people of Colum¬ 
bia. 

4 Now these southern barbarians were called the 
Creek nation of Indians. 

5 Moreover, they were a nation of savages that 
dwelt in the back-woods and the wilderness round about 
the states of Georgia, Tennessee, and the Mississippi 
Territory. 

G So, about this time, they took their weapons of 
death in their hands, and went against the strong hold 
ojf Fort Mimms, which lieth, <?n a branch of the riv.ei 





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Mobile, that emptieth its waters into the great Gy]f 
of Mexico. 

7 And they captured the place ; and with the fury of 
demons they murdered, with the tomahawk, the men, 
the women, and the infants that were in and about the 
fort, sparing neither age nor sex ; and slaying the prison¬ 
ers, that begged for mercy. 

8 And the number of the people of Columbia that 
were massacred and burnt alive in their houses, that day, 
was about four hundred; however, there were an hun¬ 
dred savages slain. 

9 For it was a sore fight ;,and Beasly, who command¬ 
ed the fort, fought hard against them ; howbeit, he was 
slain. 

10 But it came to pass, in the same year, that the 
people of Columbia were revenged of the evil; 

11 Andrew, whose sir-name was Jackson, a man of 
- courage and valor, was chief captain in the south ; 

12 And he sent out one of his brave. captains, 
whose name was Coffee, with a strong band ; even nine 
hundred mighty horsemen : 

13 Now these were the valiant husbandmen of Geor¬ 
gia and the back-woods of Tennessee; their horses were 
•fleet as the roe-buck; their weapons of war were certain 

death. 

14 So they went forth against a town of the savages 
.called Tallushatches, on the second day of -the ‘ eleventh 
month. 

15 And on the next day they encompassed the town 
round about y and the savages prepared themselves for 

^battle. 



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16 About the rising of the sun they sounded their 
drums, and began thejr horrible yellings. 

17 But they frightened not the hearts of the brave 
men of Tennessee. 

18 So when Coffee had stationed his captains and his 
men of war about i he town, in the order of battle, thy 
whole army shouted aloud ; 

i 19 And the instruments of destruction were let loose 
upon them on all sides j and they fought with all their 
might. 

20 But the men of Columbia rushed upon them, and 
subdued them, and made about four score women and 
children captive. 

21 And slew about two hundred of their warriors: 
j leaving not a man to tell the tidings. 

22 For, lo ! when the savages of the wilderness com¬ 
mit great evils and transgressions against the people of 

i Columbia, 

.23 The great Sanhedrim of the people send out.miglc 
| ty armies against them, that are able to overthrow them, 

| and make their towns a desolation, and lay waste their 
| habitations. 

24 Now the loss of the army of Columbia that day, 
i was five slain and about forty wounded. 

25 And Jackson, the chief captain, gave great praise 
to Coffee, and all the valiant men that fought that day. 

26 On the next day after the battle, the army of Co¬ 
lumbia returned to th^ir camp, at a place called the Teu> 
Elands.’ ' 



HISTORICAL 


12*3 


CHAP. XXXV. 

Continuation of the War with the Creels — Gen. Jacfc 
son’s great victory over them—they sue for peace-*- 
a treaty is concluded with the?#. 


jN OTWITHSTANDIXG their discpmfiture, the 
nation of the Creek* were still bent on warring against 
the people of Columbia. 

2 And they committed many outrages upon the it\- 
habitants of the states round about. 

3 But it came to pass, on the seventh day of the 
same month, that a messenger came to Jackson, the 
chief captain, and spake unto him, saying : 

4 Lo ! feven now, more than a thousand savages 
have pitched their tents at Talledoga, near the strong 
hold of Lashley, with intent tp ijssail it. 

5 Immediately Jackson took two thousand hardy 
men, who were called volunteers, because they had, un¬ 
solicited, offered their services to their country, and led 
them against the savages. 

6 Now the men of war that followed after him were 
mostly from the state of Tennessee, mid men of daunt* 
less courage. 

7 So, early in the morning of the next day, the arm? 
dCJackson drew nigh the place, in battle arrays 


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8 And the savages came out towards the army of Co¬ 
lombia, with shouting ai d yellings : and again the ct 
gines of destruction were used plentifully. 

9 And the leaden balls whizzed about their ears 
like unto a nest of hornets. 

10 But the horsemen, and the whole army of Jack- 
son, rushed upon the savages,-and slew them with great 
slaughter, and overcame them. 

11 And the number of savages slain that day was a- 
bout three h undred; and a red-cross banner of the 
Spanish nation was found amongst them, and taken. 

12 Seventeen of the men of Columbia were slain and 
about four score wounded. 

13 So, when the battle Was over, Jackson returned to 
his own camp. 

14 After these things had Come to pass, on the twelfth 
day of the month, a certain captain, whose sir-name 
was White, was sent against another place called the 
Hillabee-Tow ns. 

15 And, on the eighteenth day of the same month, he 
took the towns, and destroyed them, and slew three 
score of the savages, and made about two hundred two 
score and ten prisoners. 

16 About eleven days afterwards, a valiant captain, 
whose name was Floyd, with his brave men, went a- 
gainst the towns of Autossee and Tallisee, which lie on 
the banks of the river Tallapoosie. 

17 And Floyd went against them with boldness and 
triumphed over them and killed about two hundred of 
them, and burned their towns with fire, and slew the 
king of Autossee, and the king of Taljisee, who were the 
kings of two tribe!.- 


HISTORICAL 


'BS 

18 Moreover, on the thirteenth clay of the next month . 
Claiborne, a governor, and a man of valor, went agains. 
the savages that dwelt on the river Alabama. 

19 And lie marched witliliis army through the wilder¬ 
ness more than an hundred miles, to a town built opon a 
place called by the savages the IIoly-Ground, when: 
three of the Indian prophets dwelt. 

20 Now there were lying prophets among thesavages,- 
even as there were in the days of old, among the children 
of Israel; and they prophesied according to their own 
wishes; 

21 And those of shallow understanding believed them , 
and were led into a snare, whereby their whole tribe 
was nigh being destroyed. 

22 And Wetherford, the chief warrior of the Creek 
nation, was there also with his band. 

23 And he fought hard against Claiborne; but lie 
was overthrown, and fled, and the town w as burnt, e- 
ven two hundred houses. 

24 Notwithstanding ail these tribulations, the depre¬ 
dations of the savages of the south were not stayed. 

25 So Jackson, the chief captain, went out against 
them w ith his army, and attacked them at their strong' 
hold, on the waters of the Tallapoosie, where they were 
entrenched, with more than a thousand warriors. 

26 Now this was on the twenty and seventh dav of 
the third month, in the one th ousand eight hundred and 
fourteenth year of the Christian era. 

27 And Jackson set Ms destroying engines to work, 
and fought de spcrately against the m, for about the spam? 


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M uve hours; when he overcame them,, so that only, 
about a score escaped. 

23 Seven hundred and fifty of the savage warriors 
were found slain in battle; and two hundred two scor# 
a::d ten women and children became captives to the, 
army of Columbia. 

29 Manahoee, their chief prophet, was smitten ii* 
the mouth, and slain, and two other false prophets 
were slain with him. 

30 Moreover, about the first day of the sixth month, 
a brave man, whose name was Pearson, with the hus¬ 
bandmen of the states of North and South Carolina, 
WO: .t against them along the borders of the Alabama, and 
captured about six hundred of them. 

SI Thus did the men of Columbia- triumph ovc? 
them, and conquer them, even to the seventh time. 

31 And so the judgment of the Lord fell upon them 
for their unrighteousness, and for their wicked and mur¬ 
derous deeds. 

>A!r*r which they repented'of their evil, having*, 
through*!: ir own folly, lost many thousand warriors. 

34 And their chief warriors gave up their instru- 
ments of destruction, and laid them at the feet of 
Jackson, the chief captain* 

33 Even Wether ford, the chief warrior, gave him* 
self up to Jackson, sa y ing, I fought with my might; but 
I have bromdu. evil upon my nation; and thou hast 
slain my w • dors ; and 1 myself am overcome. 

S6 1^* .‘.sawares are easily inflamed and roused to 

works of sir and deathand of their weakness the ser¬ 
vants of the king are not ashamed to take advan-> 

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tage; even to the ruin of the poor and ignorant bar¬ 
barians. 

3 7 So the warriors and the whole nation of the 
Creeks, being tired of a destructive war, entreated the 
men of Columbia for peace, saying unto Jackson, 

38 Lo ! now are our eyes opened to our own profit ;■ 
now will we make peace with you. 

39 And if ye will no more suffer the fire, and the 
sword, and the destroying engines to spread desolation 
amongst us, 

40 Then will we make a covenant with you, and give 
you for an inheritance a great part of the land which 
our fathers inherited before us. 

41 And the length and the breadth thereof shall be 
about as large as the whole island of Britain, whose 
men of war have led us into this snare. 

42 For although the king, who calleth himself our fa¬ 
ther, across the great waters, did put the instruments of 
death into our hands, and gi ve us the black dust in abun¬ 
dance ; nevertheless, he deceived us; and in the hour of 
danger his servants left us to take care of ourselves. 

4$ So Jackson made a covenant with them; and it 
was signed by the chiefs of their nation. 

44 And after it had been examined by the wise men 
and the great Sanhedrim of the people, it was ratified 
and signed with the hand-writing of James, the chief 
governor of the land of Columbia. 


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CIIAP. XXXVI. 

Rian of attack on Montreal defeated. 


JL HE lrailty of man speaketh volumes ; one men ae- 
cuseth another ; but where k he who is perfect ? 

2 Man deviseth mighty plans in his own mind, blit 
lie accomplisheth them not. 

3 He is wise in his own conceit, but his wisdom 
faileth him : he seeth folly in others, but perceiveth not 
his own ; he is as a reed shaken with the wind. 

4 Now the country of Columbia was assailed on every 
sid« b^ the enemies of freedom. 

5 And in the hope that the war might speedily cease, 
and an end be made of the shedding of blood, the great 
Sanhedrim of the people wished to push tlieir armies 
into the heart of the provinces of the king, even t® 
Montreal. 

6 So they pitched upon certain chief captains, who 
were well skilled in the arts of warfare: and Wilkinson 
and Hampton were the names of the captains $ 

7 And Brown, and Boyd, and Covington, and Swift, 
and Coles, and Purdy, and Ripley, and Swartwout, 
and Fraser, and many others, were valiant captains unr 
der them. 

8 Not many days after Harrison returned from his 
triumph over Proctor's army; and in tile same year, 





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it came to. pass, that Wilkinson convened his army from 
Fort George and the country of Niagara, to SackettV 
Harbor, at the east end ol lake Ontario; leaving II<n- 
rison and M’Clure behind, at the strong hold oi Fort 
George. 

9 From Sackett’s Harbor Wilkinson moved to u 
place called Grenadier Island; and in the first week of 
the eleventh month he arrived at Ogdensburgh, in order 
to go against the strong hold of Montreal. 

10 Now the army of Hampton rested nigh unto lake 
Champlain; and about the same time he moved towards 
the borders of the king. 

11 And Wilkinson sent a messenger to him, and eft- 
created him to come and meet him, and join the two ar 
jnies at the village of St. Regis. 

12 The same night Wilkinson with his army crossed 
the great river St. Lawrence, near by the strong held 
of I rescot, which lieth in the dominions of the king. 

1' And he moved down with about six thousand men 
towards the hold of Montreal, until he came to a place 
called Crystler’s Farms, nigh unto Williamsburgh. 

14 Now, at this place, on the eleventh day of the 
eleventh month, a strong band of the men ot war of 
Britain,' from Kingston and round about, fell upon his 
army in the rear, and annoyed them greatly. 

15 At length, on the same day, a part of the army 
of Columbia turned about, and fought against them and 
drove them back; however it was a sore fight. 

16 Wilkinson, the chief captain, who went before 
the host of Columbia, had been sick many days, and 
• was unable to go forth against them himself 


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if So'he sent some of his brave captains, ev^n 
Boyd, and Swartwout, and Covington; and the en¬ 
gines of destruction were set to work with great noise 
and fury ; and the valiant Covington was wounded unto 
death. 

IS Moreover, the loss of the men of Columbia that 
day was an hundred slain, and two hundred two score 
and ten wounded, and the loss.of the king was about an 
hundred four score and one. 

19 After this battle the arigymf Wilkinson moved 
along the St. Lawrence until t M came to Barnheart ? s, 

♦ “t 

near Cornwall, wheie they met the valiant Brown. 

20 Now this place lietli on the north side of the rivc^, 
and on the other side lieth St. Regis, where Wilkinson, 
the chief captain, expected to be joined by the army, of 
Hampton, from Champlain 

21 But in this he was disappointed ; for, lo ! ITamp- 
t mi scut one of his captains, whose name was Atkinson, 
to Wilkinson, with the tidings that he had declined to 
m\ et him, rad ; \ras. returning Jo his camp q*\ die lake, 

22 Now when the army of Wilkinsm lieard those 
things, they were discouraged; and all :h ' plans that 
had been tie vised by Armstrong,* the chief captain, 
and scribe of the great Sanhedrim, were of no avad. 

23’ So the army of Wilkinson crossed the river again 
and came into the land of Columbia, at French Mills, 
near St, Rgis; where they went, into whiter quar.« 

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24 And the men of Columbia, oven the great Sanhe¬ 
drim, were disappointed in their expectations. 

25 Moreover, Hampton received much blame in the 
thing; and he was even taxed with the crime of drink¬ 
ing too freely of the strong waters. 

26 Out the imaginary evils which the children of men 
commit are oftentimes graven in brass, whilst their actual 
good deeds are written in sand. 

27 Neither shall it be forgotten here, that, when the 
shivering soldiers of Columbia were suffering with cold 
in the north, 

28 The lovely and patriotic daughters of Columbia^ 
Idlest with tenderness, remembered them, and sent them 
coverings for their hands and their feet: 

29 Even from the fleece of their fathers’ flocks, they 
wrought them with their own hands, and distributed 
them with a good heart. 

30 And, for their kindness and humanity, the poor 
Soldier blessed them, and their virtues were extolled by 
the men of Columbia throughout the land'. 


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CHAP. XXXVlfv 

Newark burnt—Fort George evacuated—Niagara 
frontier laid waste—Buff aloe burnt. 


1 \ the meantime, however, the strong vessels <«! 
Chauncey went out and brought Harrison, and the 
> remnant of his army, from Port George to Tackett’s 
Harbor, to protect the place. 

2 But they left M'Clure behind, with the men under 
him 5 being for the most part husband men, called militia, 
and volunteers. 

3 And they were eager to be led on to the battle; 
but the term for which their serv ices were engaged hav¬ 
ing expired, they returned ev>ry man to his own house. 

4 So M’Clure, tin chief captain of the fort, called a 
tiouncil of his officers, and they agreed to depart to the 
strong hold of Niagara. 

5 And they took their destroying engines and the 
-black dust, and the bread and meat of the army, and 
•carried them across the river. 

6 Likewise they put a lighted match to the black 
Just in tne tort, and it was rent asunder with a gretr* 
noise, as it were of thunder and u* earthquake. 





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■ 7 Moreover, they burnt the town of Newark, bet ex ', 
they departed, which happened on the tenth day ol the 
twelfth month. 

ts Howb.eit, they gave the inhabitants time to saye 
themselves, before they put the burning torch to their 
dwellings 5 nevertheless, it was an evil thing, and pleased 
not the people of Columbia. 

■9 T he men of Columbia were not cruel, and they 
put none df the inhabitants of the town to the swore]. 

10 After this, it came to pass, on the nineteenth 
day of the same month, early in the morning, before the 

►dawning of the day, about fifteen hundred of the savages 
and soldiers of the king crossed the river, and went a- 
gainst Niagara. 

11 And they fell unawares upon the men of Columbia, 
while they were yet asleep in their tents ; and overcame 
them, and took the fort, and rut the garrison to the 
sword; even the women and children suffered under the 
savage tomahawk. 

12 Now the people of Columbia, who were massacred 
"that day, were about two hundred Uvo score and ten. 

13 But the captain of the hold, whose name was 
Leonard, was charged with the evil; for he had left 
the fort, and neglected that,duty which should ever be 
the pride of a soldier. 

14 Nevertheless, when they bad committed all tins 
horrid slaughter, the barbarians w ere not fully glutted 
%ith murder; 

lb So they went against the little villages of Lewis- 
town, Manchester, Youngstown, and Tuscarora, aiyi 
■' burnt them with fire, and slew the poor and helpless 
.fcthat dwelt round about the place. 



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ID Alter which, at the close of the year, they wear 
against the beautiful village of Buffaloe, and burnt it 
also: and made it k ruin and a desolation. 


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CHAP. XXXVIH 

Cruise of the V. S. frigate Essex , D. Porter com¬ 
mander-—her defence and capture , at Valparaiso. 


OW whilst the great lakes and rivers were bound 
in fetters of ice, and the arms of Columbia slumbered in 
the winter camps of the north ; 

2 And whilst the conquering sword of Jackson 
spread ruin and desolation among the misguided savages 
©f the south; 

3 Lo ! new scenes of warfare appeared upon the wa¬ 
ters of the great deep. 

4 In the first year of the war David, whose shv 
name was Porter, sailed from the shores of Columbia’' 
towards the soutii, that he mignt ei: ture*the vessels of 
the men of Britain. 

5 And the ship which he commanded was one of 
the strong vessels of Columbia, called the Essex. 

6 Now David was a valiant man, and he had con¬ 
trived a plan to annoy the commerce .of Britain in the 
waters of the great Pacific Ocean. 

7 So, in process of time, he passed around the fur¬ 
thermost part of the land of Columbia, which is called 
Cape Horn, and lieth far to the south ; near the country 
of Patagonia, which is inhabited by the barbarians, and 
^yl,ed fp wards the haven, of Valparaiso. 


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From whence, leaving Chili te the south, he>mow 
ed along the coast of P< ru, till he came to Lima, where 
it never rains : 

9 A country where gold and silver are found irr 
abundance, and where there is one continual summer 
and the trees blossom throughout the year. 

10 Again, he prepared his vessels, and sailed from 
Lima towards the north, until he fell upon the islands of 
fcallapagos ; called the enchanted islands. 

11 Now these'islands lie upon the west side of the 
great continent of Columbia, under a meridian sun. be¬ 
neath the girdle of the world. 

12 Hereabouts he captured’a multitude of the mer¬ 
chant ships of Britain, laden with rich merchandize, and 
silver and gold. 

13 And he fixed a score of the destroying engines 
into one of the ships he had taken; and made her a 
fighting vessel, and called her same Essex Junior, and 
a man, whose name was Downs, he made captain 
thereof. 

14 And he fell upon the'fishermen of Britain, and 
captured those who went out to catch the mighty 
whales, which afford oil to give us light in the night 
time, and bones to shade our daughters from t lie scorch¬ 
ing sun of the noon-day. 

15 Moreover, David went to nn island where dwelt 
wild savages, and established himself, so that he could 
go out and return whensoever he chose. 

16 And when he departed from the island, which b . 
called after the chief governor of the land of Columbia 




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Hi those days * he left some of his men, with the weapon- 

of war to defend the place. . 

17 Now David was a grievous thorn m the side o 
Britain, and he almost destroyed her whole commerce 

*" l iT feaitclTas he put the wise men of the king to 
their wits end; for they were unable to out-sail h.m 

and take him captive, ,. 

19 So they sent that strong ships in search of mm, 

bv two's, over the whole face of the waters of, the 
Southern Ocean ; and tlie expense thereof would have 
made more than two feasts for the Prince Kegent, who 
'governed England in the'name of his father. 

20 However, it came to pass, that David returned- 
again in his ship to the haven of Valparaiso; and the 
vessel, called the Essex Junior* accompanied him. 

Now Downs, who commanded her, had been to 
the place before, and conducted the prizes of David there, 
and brought him the tidings that he was likely to be en¬ 
snared upon the watei s. - • 

22 So, whilst David was there, on the twenty-eighth 
day of the third month, in the eighteen hundred and, 
fourteenth year of the Christian era, 

23 l ie looked around, and behold 1 ha-saw two of the 
strong ships of Britain approaching, for the purpose of 
hemming him- in-; the one called the Phcebe, and the 
other the Cherub, 

24 But his heart sank not within him, for he knew 
no cowardice; but, with the wisdom of a brave many 


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iic strove to escape, as the vessels were too powerful for 
hint. 

25 But the winds were adverse, and blew hard, and 
prevented thetacklings of his ship from taking effect: 

26 Nevertheless, David said unto the captains of 
the king, Come singly, and not like cowards, upon 
me \ then shall ye receive the thunders of the freemen 
of Columbia abundantly ; 

27 And her fame shall not suffer, although in the con¬ 
test ye may destroy my vessel upon the face of the wai¬ 
ters. 

28 But Hillyar, the captain of the king’s 3hip called 
the Phoebe, was afraid lest he should be overcome. 

29 Now, when David found he was unable to make 

i good his escape, lie drew nigh iiie land, that he might 
be protected by the great law of nations; for it was a, 
j place friendly to both parties. 

50 But in this he was deceived,* for the authorities 
j of Spain trembled at the nod of the servants of Britain, 

| in whom there was no faith. 

51 So both vessels came upon him, like ravenous 
! wolves, in the very haven of Valparaiso; thus trans¬ 
gressing the law of nations, and committing an outrage 
which hath few examples uncler the sun. 

32 And they set their engines to work upon the Es¬ 
sex with all their might. 

S3 Nevertheless, David fought against them with 
desperation, for there was no hope left for him to es 
cape ; neither did he expect mercy. 

34 And he held out for more than the space of two 
hours, when he became overpowered ; having his ship 
i sinking wreck, covered with blood, and on fire; wijh. 

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about an hundred and fifty of Ills men slain and maim 
ed : 

35 So, after David had fought hard, he became cap¬ 
tive to the ships of the king; who had also some of 
their men slain, and some wounded. 

36 Moreover, Hillyar gave him praise and called 
turn a man of courage; for he fought against two strong 
ships of Britain. 

37 And David made a covenant with Hillyar, in 
which the Essex Junior was given unto him and his 
men, that they might return in her again to their own 
country. 

38 And it came to pass, in the seventh month of 
the same year of the battle, David arrived in the city 
<j?f New-York; having been absent about two years. 

39 Now when the people of Columbia beheld the 
valiant Porter, they were rejoiced with exceeding great 
oy 5 inasmuch as they unharnessed tke horses from be¬ 
fore his chariot, and drew him through the city. 

40 And they made a sumptuous feast for him, and 
invited a multitude of guests ; and spent the day in glad¬ 
ness and nurth.. 



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CHAP. XXXIX. 

Capture of the V. S. sloop of tear Frolic , by the Bri¬ 
tish frigate Orpheus—capture of the British sloop 
of war U Epsrvicr, by the Peacock , Capt. Warring.- 
ton—capture of the Reindeer, bi / the JFasp , ( 'apt. 
Blakely—the Aron captured and sunk — U. S. ves¬ 
sels Syren and Rattlesnake captured—-Admiral 
Cochrane declares the tohole American coast in a 
state of blockade. 


OW it happened on the twenty-first day of the 
fourth month of the eighteen hundred and fourteenth 
year, that one of the strong ships of the king, called the 
Orpheus; 

2 Being upon the waters of the great deep, fell in with 
a small vessel of the United States, called the Frolic, 
and made capture thereof. 

3 However, in the same month, not many days after- 

I wards, a fighting vessel of Columbia, called the Peacock, 

I commanded by the brave Warrington, met oneofihe 
vessels of the king. 

4 Now they were about equal in force; and the 
name of 4he vessel of Britain was called L’Epervier 
ami the captain’s name was Wales. 

\ 5 And they sat the engines of destruction to work, 
and Ib ight with great fury for tfie space of forty minutes $ 





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6 When the mariners of Columbia overcame the 
servants of the king, and the vessel of Britain struck 
her red-cross to the ship of Warringt 

7 And there were slain and wounded of the servants 
of the king about twenty and three ; but there were 
none slain of the people of Columbia. 

8 Moreover, Warrington gat about an hundred 
and twenty thousand pieces of silver, that were in the 
vessel. 

9 And he received great praise throughout the laud 
for this gallant exploit. 

10 And the great Sanhedrim thanked him and gave 
him a medal of gold. 

11 Likewise, the people of Savannah, a chief town 
in the state of Georgia, being a thousand miles to the 
south of New-York, honored him greatly. 

12 For he had brought both vcsvls into their port; 
and there were much rejoicings; and a rich feast was 
prepared for him by the people. 

13 Moreover, it came to pass, on the twenty-eighth 
day of the sixth month, that one of the fighting ships 
of Columbia, called the Wasp, met a vessel of the king, 
upon the ocean, called the Reindeer ; after one of the 
swift running animals .of Columbia. 

14 Now the Wasp was commanded by a man of 
courage, whose name was Blakely. 

15 And a dreadful battle began; and the mischievous 
balls of destruction showered around with tremendous 
noise. 

lG Nevertheless, Blakely ran down upon th^ Rein¬ 
deer, and in about twenty minutes he captured her. * 

17 But her captain was slain, and she vuts ..as.it 


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were a wreck Upon the waters; so Blakely destroyed 
her. 

18 The loss of the king, in killed and wounded 
that day, was about seventy and five; and five of the 
men of Columbia were slain, and about a score maim¬ 
ed. 

19 And the friends of the great Sanhedrim were 
pleased with the valiant acts of Blakely. 

20 Moreover, on the twenty-seventh day of the 
eighth month, the Wasp captured another ship of the 
king, called the Avon, and sunk her to the bottom of 
the great deep. 

21 And the slain and wounded of the Avon, was 
two score and two. 

22 Ilowbeit, about the same time, the Syren and 
the Rattlesnake* fell into the hands of the king. 

23 About this.time, the whole land of Columbia was 
ordered to be hemmed in by Cochrane, a servant of 
die king, and a chief captain of the navy of Britain. 

24 But all their blockades were of no avail; for the 
men of Columbia escaped and outwitted them. 


* V. S. schooner and orig, about 14 guns each 







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CHAP. XL. 

Breaking up of the cantonment at French Mills —> 
affair at La-Cole-Mill—Major Appling captures 
two hundred British seamen — Gen. Brown captures 
Fort Erie—battle of Chippaiva plains. 


NOW it came to pass, in the second month of the 
same year in which David gat home to the United 
.States, 

2 That the armies of the north began to be in motion, 
and departed from the place called French Mills, 
where they were encamped. 

3 And a part thereof moved towards Plattsburgh, on 
lake Champlain ; and was commanded by a brave man, 
whose name was Macomb, and Wilkinson, the chief 
captain, followed after them. 

4 But the other part of the host, commanded by 
Jacob, whose sir-name was Brown, went to SacketPs 
Harbor; and from thence against the strong hold of 
Niagara. 

5 And it was so, that when Wilkinson heard that 
Jacob had gone against Niagara; he marshalled out 
his force, and went against a place in* the province of 
the king, called La-Cole-Mill, to take it. 

6 Nevertheless, he failed, and lost many men; after 
which the command of the army was given to a chief 
captain, whose name was Izard, 



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147 

7 In the meanwhile many of the evils of warfare 
were committed on and about the waters of Ontario 
and the great lake Erie. 

S And a gallant captain, whose name was Appling,♦ 
took about two hundred of the mariners of the roval 
navy of Britain, at a place called Sandy-Creek, by 
the waters of lake Ontario : being in the same month, 
that the strong hold of Oswego was taken by the men 
of Britain. 

9 Now on the third day of the seventh month, it 
came to pass, that Jacob, the chief captain of the host 
of Columbia, on the borders of the river Niagara, 

10 Having prepared his men beforehand, crossed 

the river and captured fort Erie, and an hundred thirty 
and seven of the soldiers of the king, and some of the 
destroying engines ; « 

11 And the next day being the anniversary of the 
independence of Columbia, after having left some of 
the men of war to defend the place, 

12 He moved with his host towards the plains of 
Chippawa, where they rested for the night. 

13 On the next day Jacob assembled Ills captains of 
fifties, and his captains of hundreds, and spake unto 
them, saying, 

14 Lj I the army of the king are mighty men of 
valor, and their numbers are great, even those who 
fought in Spain, under the banners of Welling- 






* Major Appling. 



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ipn, # the chief warrior of Britain; and Rial!, the 
chief captain of the host, is a man of great experi¬ 
ence : 

15 Nevertheless, be not disheartened 5 but let us be¬ 
ware that we be not ensnared. 

16 So he prepared his army to go against the host 
of Britain, in battle array; and the soldiers of Colum¬ 
bia shouted for the battle; 

17 Now the army of Britain rested upon the plains 
of Chippawa, and were ready to meet the army of Co¬ 
lumbia ; they shouted aloud, and inflamed their blood 
with the strong waters of Jamaica. 

18 And they put Aire to the black dust of the de¬ 
stroying engines; and a great noise issued from the 
mouths thereof. 

19 Moreover, they vomited fire and smoke and 
brimstone incessantly, and with the movements of the 
-armies the dust of the earth arose and overshadowed 
the field of slaughter'. 

20 And the heavy halls of iron whistled about them 
m abundance. 

21 However, the skill of Jacob, and his brave cap¬ 
tains, became manifest, and they drove the host of Bri¬ 
tain before them, 

22 And compelled them to flee to their strong en¬ 
trenchments at Fort George and Fort Niagara. 

23 And the field of. battle was covered with the slain 
and the maimed ; even eight hundred men. 

24 And the slain and wounded of the servants of the 
king were about five hundred. 


# Lord Wellington, 




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25 So Jacob and liis army gat great praise, aud all 
the warriors of Columbia that fought.that day : 

26 Amongst. whom were the volunteers of the 
states ot Ne r-xork and Pennsylvania, who were led 
on by the gallant Porter.* 

'27 And Ripley was there, and the brave Scott, who 
went out and fought in the heat of the battle. 


* Gen*. Porter } Ripley, and Scott 











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CHAP. XLI. 

Battle of Bridgewater. 


±\ OW about this time there was peace among 
strong powers of Europe; and the strength of Britain 
was free to be employed against the people of Colum¬ 
bia. 

2 So she increased her navy on the shores of Co¬ 
lumbia, and strengthened her armies in Canada; and 
sent skilful men to conduct them and to fight her bat¬ 
tles : 

3 And, in her spite, she emptied out the Vials of her 
vengeance upon the United States. 

4 Notwithstanding, it came to pass, on the twenty 
fifth day of the same month, 

5 That another bloody battle was fought hard by, at 
a place called Bridgewater, from whence ye might be¬ 
hold the stupendous w ater-falls of Niagara. 

6 There the army of Britain came out against Jacob, 
with a host of five thousand chosen men. 

7 Now the numbers of the host of Columbia were 
less than the host of the king, who were commanded by 
two chief captains, the one named Drummond,* and 
the other Iliall; 



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S Nevertheless, Jacob went out against them and 
gave them battle : and the army of Columbia shouted 
aloud 5 and the battle waxed hot beyond measure. 

9 And It lasted for the space of seven hours ; even 
until the midnight. 

i -*0 The huge engines of destruction roared as the 
loud thunder, and the blaze thereof was like unto dash¬ 
es of lightning. 

11 But it came to pass, that the army of Columbia 
drove the invincibles of Wellington from the field. 

12 The valiant Miller, with his band, rushed upon 
the soldiers of the king, with the sharp points of his 
weapons of war, that faintly glittered in the light of the 
moon, and overcame them.* 

13 Moreover, Drummond, the chief captain of the 
king, was wounded, and in danger of being made cap¬ 
tive ; and Riall, the .chief captain, was taken and fell 
into the hands of the brave Jessup.f 

14 And Jacob, the chief captain of the host of Co¬ 
lumbia, was sorely wounded j and the brave Scott was 
wounded also. 

15 However, this was a dreadful bottle, fought ar¬ 
my against army, and blood and daughter covered the 

| green fields. 

16 The loss of the king, was about a thousand and 
two hunched fighting men, who came to lose in the 
jland of Columbia the honor they won in Europe. 


* Miller’s brilliant charge on the enemy. 
f Major Jessup, of the 25th Reg. 





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17 The loss of the men of Columbia was also very 
great; being an hundred three-score and ten slain, and 
more than five hundred maimed. 

18 Now, as Jacob, the chief captain of the host of 
Columbia, was wounded, the charge w r as given to the 
valiant Ripley, and the army returned to the strong 
hold of Fort Erie. 

£9 And Jacob and his brave men gained; great praise 
throughout the land of Columbia. 


CIIAP. XLII. 


Assault on Fort Frio , by the British , under Gen . 
Drummond —(7e«. Brown resumes his command — 
sallies out of Fort Frie against the. British camp 
■>—AT Arthurs expedition into Canada . 


-£*-ND it came to pass, on the fourth day of the 
next months bejng the same day that the gallant Mor- 
gauj with two hundred and two score men, drove-a 
thousand soldiers of the king from before Black Rock. 

~ That a chief captain of Columbia whose name 
was Gaines,*? arrived from Sackett’s Harbor at Forf 
1 rie; and took the command thereof. 

3 And it was so, that on the following day the arm* 
of the king approached towards the fort, and encamped 
themselves. 

4 Moreover, they threw up breast-works and pre¬ 
pared their battering-rams, with intent to dcstioy the 
place, and make captives of the men of Columbia. 

3 And on the fifteenth day of the month, alter they 
had prepared themselves, they rushed forth with all 
their might against the strong hold of Columbia. 

(i And as their deeds were evil, they began in the 
dead of the night, when the bowlings of the wild wolf 


* Gen. Gaines * 

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are heard from afar, and the steady roar of distant wa* 
te'r-falls, catches the ear of the drowsy centinel. 

7 Lo! it was a night dark and gloomy; and the 
very clouds of heaven wept for the folly of man.* 

8 Quickly did the weapons of murder disturb and 
trouble the general silence. 

9 Their thunders roared around the battlements; 
and the sudden blaze, from the engines, was as a thou¬ 
sand flashes of lightning. 

10 Rut the men of Columbia were not asleep; 
for they met them at the onset *. thrice the men of Bri¬ 
tain came; and thrice were they driven back. 

11 About this time, a man of Columbia, who was 
sorely wounded, begged of an officer of the king that 
his life might be spared ; 

12 But the captain, whose name was Drummond,f 
to whom he spake, refused him quarters ; and, taking 
an oath, he swore, and cursed the men of Columbia, 
saying, Even as I slay thee, so shall it be with ye all. 

13 Thus violating the commandment of God, which 
sayeth, Thou shAlt no no murder. 

14 But the hand of the Lord was stretched out 
against him; for while he was yet speaking, in the 
wickedness of his heart, h6 was smitten dead to the 
earth. 

15 Now, although the men of Britain did some 
injury to the fort, they were quickly compelled to <kv» 


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16 And the slain and wounded of the king that 

* n ‘£ nt > ' verc about seven hundred, besides two hundred 
captives. 

17 The loss of the United States was about an 
lmndred men. 

18 Now it came to pass, on the seventeenth day of 
the next month, when Jacob was recovered of his 

>. wounds, and had resumed his command, he sallied out 
o; I ort Erie with his men, and went against the camp 
4 01 the servants of the king. 

19 And by his bravery and skill, and that of the 
valiant captains under him, he took and destroyed 
■their strong holds, and slew many of them, so that 

r their loss was about a thousand fighting men. 

20 And the slain and wounded of Jacob's army 
*were two hundred ninety and nine. 

21 Now the valiant deeds of Jacob, and his brave 
men, are they not written in all the books of the chrouk 

4 cles of the land of Columbia of that day ? 

22 After this, on the twenty-first day of the same 
month, the chief captain, and the host of Britain, being 
tired of the noise of the destroying engines of the men 
of Columbia, went away from the place and rested at 
Queenstown. 

23 About this time Izard, the chief captain, arriv¬ 
al at Fort Erie, from Plattsburgh, and, as he was the 
*degj£fcaptain, he took the charge of the army of the 

L dor i)i. 

24 During these circumstances, it happened that the 
Srave M'Arthur, who had remained at the -trong hold 

Detroit, to defend if, 





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25 Moved his army towards Burlington Heights., 
and went more than an hundred miles into the province 
of Canada. 

26 And the men of Columbia that went with him 
were valiant men, from the states of Kentucky and Ohio $ 
in number about eight hundred. 

27 Victory perched upon their arms, and they slew 41 
some of the servants of the king, and made many 
prisoners, and returned again with the loss of one man. 

28 In the meanwhile, the army of Izard crossed the < 

river and returned from Erie to the borders of Columbia, 
in the latter part of the year, and went into their winter 
camps at Buffalo. v 


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CIIAP. XLIII. 

Attack on Stomnglon , by the British ships of wqj 
which arc defeated and driven of. 


I 

N these days the strong powers of Britain strove 
hard to quench the fire of Columbian Liberty, 

2 But it was lighted up by the hand of heaven, and 
not to be extinguished. 

3 Now it came to pass, on the ninth day of the eighth 
month of the same year, 

4 That the mighty ships of Britain came and opened 
their thundering engines upon the little town of Ston- 
•ington, which lieth in the state of Connecticut, in the 
east. 

5 But the inhabitants of the place were bold and 
valiant men, and they scorned to make a covenant wLth 
the servants of the king. 

6 Although Hardy, 5 t|ic chief captain of the king’s 
ships bad-threatened to destroy the place; saying, lie- 
move from the town your women and your children, 
who are innocent and fight not. 

7 Thus shewing more righteousness than any of the 


* Com Hardy , a captain under Lord Nelson, at 
the battle of Trafalgar. 

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-king'-s captains : albeit, he gave them only the Space oi 
one hour to depart: 

S So the men of Columbia let the destroying engines 
loose upon the vessels, and shot the yankee balls amongst 
them plentifully, and compelled them to depart: 

9 Notwithstanding, they had but two of the destroy¬ 
ing engines in the place. 

10 However, on the eleventh day of the same month, 
•they were again forced to put them in motion. 

11 For, in the meantime, Hardy had sent a messen¬ 
ger to the inhabitants, saying, 

12 If ye will not prove wicked, and will refrain from 
sending your evil torpedoes amongst our vessels, then 
will we spare your town. 

13 Now Hardy was mightily afraid of these torpe¬ 
does, (the history whereof is written in the fiftieth 
book of these chronicles) and he trembled at the sound 
of the name thereof. 

14 Nevertheless, the people -of Stonington refused 
his request. 

3 5 So the ships of Britain came again and they 
brought another strong ship of the king to help them to 
take the place. 

16 But once more the valiant sons of Connecticut 
made them fly for safety : and they came not again. 

IT And the gallant conduct of the people of Ston- 
ington gained them much praise, even from the grea* 
Sanhedrim of the people. 

18 Thus would the men of Columbia have done, in 
many other places, but for the false words and wicked- 
Bess of traitorous men. 


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CHAP. XLIV. 

Affairs in the Chesapealce—British arm/ move up 
the Patuxent-^—land and march towards the city 
of Washington—-prepare themselves for battle at 
Bladensburgh. 


•~L^ OTV the mighty fleet of Britain, that troubled the 
waters of the great Bay of Chesapeake, commanded by 
Gockburn the wicked, continued their depredations. 

2 The number of their lighting ships were increas¬ 
ed, and the soldiers of the king had come thither in 
multitudes from the island of Britain. 

3 For the war which she had waged against the 
mighty ruler of France,* was at an end ; and all their 
men of war were idle $ so they sent them against the 
men of Columbia, who slew them with, terrible si a ugh- 
ter. 

4 Now the numbers of the - servants and soldiers o:' 
the king, in and about the Chesapeake, were little fewer 
than ten thousand. 

5 And they moved up the great river, which is called 
the Potowmac, and the river Patuxent, which lieth to 
the east thereof. 

6 So, as they passed along, they did much damage'. 


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and destroyed abundance of the sweet-scented plant of 
Virginia, burning it with fire. 

7 Now this weed is a native of the land of Colum¬ 
bia, and groweth not on the island of Britain: 

8 Therefore, the nostrils of the servants of Britain 
were regaled with the scent thereof, for the king had 
put a silver bar* against its plentiful use, throughout bis 
whole dominions. 

9 However, it came to pass, about the twentieth day 
of the same month, that the whole army of Britain gat 
•out of their vessels and their boats, at a place called 
Benedict, being towards the head of the river Patuxent. 

10 And a man of great experience in matters of war¬ 
fare, sir-named Boss, was chief captain of the host of 
Britain. 

11 So they marched on towards Washington, which 
lie th on the waters of the Potowmac, and'is called the 
chief city of the land of Columbia: where the great 
Sanhedrim assemble themselves together. 

12 And 1 they journied on until they came to a place 
called BJadensburgh, which iieth to the east of the city, 
.not far off. 

13 And Cockbum Staid not behind, for his heart 
thirsted after blood and murder. 

14 Now this Weis on the twenty-fourth day of the 
eighth month, in the one thousand eight hundred and 
oitrteenth year of the Christian era. 

15 And the army of Columbia that -'went out to 
meet the host of Britain, was commanded by a brave 
r;%m, whose name was Winder. 

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16 But it was in the heat of the summer, and the hus¬ 
bandmen of Columbia, that went out to defend the 
place, tvere weary, for they had travelled many miles 
from the house of their fathers. 

IT Moreover, their numbers were few at the onset: 
for those that were journeying on their way came not 
in time. 

18 Nevertheless, they who came, prepared them¬ 
selves for the fight, in the hope that they might not be 
overcome by the servants of the king. 

19 And it was so, that when Ross, the chief captain 
of the host of Britain, drew nigh the place, and saw 
that the men of Columbia were bent on giving him hin¬ 
drance, 

20 He addressed the officers and men of his aripy, 
and enc outraged them, saying, 

21 Lo ! we are stronger than the host of Columbia; 
therefore, let us go with all our might against their chief" 
city, and make capture thereof, 

22 And burn it with fire, and take their chief govern¬ 
or, and bind him hand and foot, and bring him before 
the king. 

23 Moreover, let us surround the temple of the great 
Sanhedrim of the nation, and endeavor to catch them, 
even as the huntsman catcheth/oxes. 

24 Then shall we strike terror throughout the land 
of Columbia, and the arms of the king, our master,* 
shall be encircled with glory. 

25 The spirit of the people will be broken; they 
will bow down tb the servants of the king: and all the 
nations will behold the valiant deeds of Britain. 


162 HISTORICAL 


CHAP. XLV. 

Otptute of Washington—Sacking of Alexandria — 
death of Sir Peter Parker. 


ZNfc 0\ty, when Ross, the chief captain, had done 
speaking, they sent forth their fire brands, and sat their 
destroying engines to work, and cast balls of destruc¬ 
tion and death. 

2 Nevertheless, the men of Columbia were not dis¬ 
mayed, but poured out .their thunders upon them ip 
abundance. 

3 And Joshua, sir-named Barney, who commanded 
the vessels of Columbia near the place, with his brave 
men, went out upon the land, and fought against them 
with desperation. 

4 For he had ordered his little fleet to be burnt with 
fire, that the men of Britain might not profit thereby, 
and it blew up in the air with a loud noise. 

•£* Now Joshua was in the.heat of the battle ; and his 
destroying engines slew the men of Britain on all sides : 
however, lie was wounded and made captive. 

6 But the servants of the king treated' Joshua well, 
and honoured him for his bravery. 

7 Now James, the chief governor, and the counsel¬ 
lors, a’ k! the scribes of the great Sanhedrim, wen) gui 



t0 see ^ 1C battle, and to contrive for die safety of t> . 
«ity. 

8 And Munroe,* the chief scribe of the grea, 
Sanhedrim, was there; and Armstrong,! and many 
other friends of the land of Columbia. 

9 Nevertheless, the wisdom of all their plans failed 
them ; and they were sorely grieved to behold the hus¬ 
bandmen and the army of Winder, tiie chief captain, 
flee before the host of Britain. 

10 But they were misled in their calculations; ai^d 
they were now unable to prevent the evil. 

11 Neither did the men ol war they counted upon 
arrive in time to catch the army of the king. 

12 1 heretole, the host oi Columbia fled, and "went 
beyond the city, and passing through Georgetown, 
rested at a place called Montgomery Court-house. 

13 And the slain and maimed of the king, were 
about four hundred: those of the men of Columbia 
about two score. 

14 Now it was about the going down of the sun, 
when the host of the king polluted the Citadel of Free¬ 
dom, and with their unhallowed footsteps violated the 
Temple of Liberty. 

15 Ami Cockburn and Ross led the savage band of 
Britain into the midst of the city. 

l(i And the men of Columbia gnashed their teeth, and 


* Hon. James Munroe , then Sccry of State . 
t Gen. Armstrong. 



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bit their lips with vexation 5 for the thing might have 
been prevented.* 

17 Nevertheless, it proved a blessing; for it united 
the people of Columbia as-one man, against the tyrants 
of the earth. 

IS Now the place that had been pitched upon to 
build the chief city, was in a fine country, and a beau¬ 
tiful spot, in the District of Columbia. 

19 But the inhabitants round about the City of 
■VVa,.liingtoh were few ; for they had, as it were, just 
began to build it. 

^0 There was much ground laid out for the city, 
but the buildings therein were not many; neither was 
it foitided. 


* Whatever may he individual sentiment : , it has hcbn, 
rind still is the opinion of the best informed , that there 
was sufficient lime to have had the place entrenched 
and fortified , if necessary , with an hundred pieces of 
rannon j and at least to have kept the enemy at hay, 
until a sufficient force were assembled to have cut off 
ids retreat. But to expect raw militia to mget and re- 
pulse, in an open plain, soldi columns of regular troops , 
superior in numbers as well as discipline , must be 
preposterous. Who is to blame in the business we pre¬ 
sume not to say; but hope a recurrence of the evil 
may be provided against in future . Had the same en¬ 
ergy and industry been exercised at the city of Wash¬ 
ington, that were displayed by the patriotic citizens of 
New-York, in creeling fortifications for- the defence of 
their capital, we might have been spared the mortifi¬ 
cation that followed the capture of the scat of govern¬ 
ment. 



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51 So when the servants of the king came to the 
place, they looked around, in surprise, and cried out 
with astonishment, saying, 

22 Lo ! the city hath lied with the people, for there 
are but an handful of houses in the place. 

23 However, the next day they began the work of 
destruction, like unto the barbarians of ancient times ; 
for their wickedness followed after them as the shadow 
followeth after the substance. 

24 And they destroyed the beautiful edifices with fire, 
even the palace of the great Sanhedrim. 

25 Now Cockburn was loath that his wicked deads 
should be handed down to future generations ; so he 
went and destroyed, with his own hands, the chief 
printing-office* of the city, and scattered the types 
abroad; 

26 Because, as he alledged, the printer had, in times 
past, uttered many hard things against him. 

27 Thus did he, even Cockburn, like an ignorant 
savage, stamp his own name with infamy, and make it 
become a reproach amongst all mankind. 

23 Science and learning blushed at the champions 
of England, who had been repiesented as the bulwark 
of religion; but who were, in reality, the supporters ot 
idolatry ; the staff of Juggernaut, the false god of In 
din. 

29 Now the art of printing was not known amon* 
<iie aucients; for it xvus invented in these latter days; 
even in the fourteen hundred and fortieth year of the 
Christian era. 

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SO It was the helpmate of Freedom, and when the 
light which it spread burst forth upon the world, it be¬ 
gan to open the eyes of man, and to destroy the poison¬ 
ous weeds that choaked the growth of Liberty. 

3 L Moreover, to complete the vandalism of Cock- 
burn and Ross, they fell upon the printed books of the 
great Sankedriim 

32 Even those that had been gathered together for 
instruction ; the toil of many years; containing the 
learning and wisdora of ages. 

33 And they consumed them with fire ; thus striving 
td^turn man back to the ages of ignorance and dark¬ 
ness. 

34 Now, Thomas, whose sir-name was Jefferson^ 
who had been a scribe in the days of Washington, 
and a chief governor in the land of Columbia, in times 
past; a man whom the people esteemed for his vir¬ 
tue y 

35 When he heard of their wickedness; how, sa¬ 
vage-like, they had burnt the books which had been 
written by the wise men of the earth, and preserved 
from the beginning to. that day ; 

36 In the goodness of his heart, he wrote unto the 
great Sanhedrim, when they were assembled together>. 
saying : 

Since, like the barbarians of old, whose igno 
ranee might plead for them, the servants of the king¬ 
dom of Great Britain have laid waste your chief city* 
and made it a desolation, 

38 And have trampled upon science, mutilated the 
monuments of art and industry, destroyed the archive 

your nation, and burnt your b ooks with fire$ 


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39 For your benefit, and for the benefit of my coun¬ 
try, I will give unto you my whole library, which I 
have selected v, itli care, from my youth upwards ; and 
whatever in your judgment shall be the value thereof, 
that will I accept;* 

40 I.am well stricken in years, and must shortly 
sleep with my fathers ; but the last wish of my heart 
-shall be the welfare of my country. 

41 Now Thomas was a Philosopher, and a man of 
great learning, and he had abundance of books of all 
nations, and in all languages, even ten thousand vo¬ 
lumes. 

42 So the great Sanhedrim accepted the offer of 
Thomas, and they retain the books to this day. 

43 Now it came to pass, in the evening of the 
same day, on which the vandals of Britain set fire to 
the city, that the army of the king fled from the place ; 

' *v the air of Liberty is poison to the followers of ty» 
v mts. 

14 Moreover, tliey left some of their slain and 
...minded behind, for they were afraid of being caught 
in a snaie by the husbandmen of Columbia. 

•In So they went down-to the river and gat into their 
a os so Is from whence they came. 

4(> In the meantime, the inhabitants of Alexandria, 
a'town which lietli to the south of the chief city, on the 
•river Potowmac, in the state.of-Virginia, 


* Mr. Jefferson left it to Congress to make him what 
compensation they thought proper for his Library. 



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A7 Being smitten with fear, sent to Cockburn and 
Ross, entreating that they might be spared, if, perad- 
venture, they made a covenant in good faith with them, 
and surrendered themselves. 

48 And the chief captains of Britain agreed to the 
capitulation of the town, and to vouchsafe its protec¬ 
tion. 

49 But. the people suffered for their foolish confi¬ 
dence ; and no one pitied them ; for it was of ‘their 
own seeking. 

50 So it happened, after they had trusted to the 
faith of the servants of the king ; Gordon, a captain 
of the ships in the river Potowmac, came up against 
them before the town ; 

51 Anc| took their merchant shine. --3 compelled 
th people to open their store-houses, and put into the 
ve : els their flour, even sixteen thousand barrels, and 
the.r wine, and their cotton, and a thousand hogsheads 
of the sweet-scented plant. 

52 So the robbers of the king took them away, sack¬ 
ed the town, and laughed at the people thereof, for 
trusting to the faith of British honour. 

53 However, as they passed along down the river, 
with their ill-gotten treasure, lo! the ships of Britain 
were assailed, and nigh being destroyed : 

54 For Rogers, and Perry, and Porter, three va¬ 
liant captains of the navy of Columbia, gave them 
hindrance and annoyed them greatly : 

55 Perry and Porter raised fortifications upon the 
borders of the river, and put therein the destroying 


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engines, which, when the vessels came nigh by, 
they let loose upon them abundantly, and wounded 
them in their tackling, and slew numbers of their 

RICH. 

56 Moreover, the bails which the engines vomited 
forth, were red and hot from the mouth of the fiery 
furnace. 

57 Meamyhile, Rogers sent his fire-ships among 
tiiem to destroy them as they fled; nevertheless they 
escaped. 

r>S Now about this time, being the thirtieth day of 
liie same month, Peter, whose sir-name was Paiker, 
who commanded a strong ship of the king, was com¬ 
mitting many depredations along the shores of th^ Ches¬ 
apeake ; 

59 So Peter essayed to go, in the night-time, against 
-some of the husbandmen of Columbia, commanded by 
. the gallant Reid,* about the borders of the state of Ma¬ 
ny land ; 

(3 ) And when he had landed his men of war, lie 
went out after the husbandmen, and the plunder; but 
they were upon the watch, nd fell upon him, and killed 
and maimed about two score, and were nigh mak¬ 
ing captives of them all 5 and Peter was ampngst tfie 
. t lain. 

Cl Now when the news of the taking of the chief 
ity of Columbia, and the sacking of Alexandria was 


* Co! Reid, of thr militia . 


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received in Britain, at first the people rejoiced, saying, 
Now, forsooth, have we-conquered these cunning Yan¬ 
kees ! 

62 But afterwards they became ashamed, and hid 
their faces; for they had heard the judgment of the 
surrounding nations, by whom their vandalism was 
condemned.* 


* A number of well written articles were publish - 
9 d, not only in the papers of France and Germany. 
but even in England, in which this scandalous imita¬ 
tion of the conduct of the Gotks and Vandals was very 
severely reprehended. 



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CHAP. XLVI. 

British under Gen. Prevost, go against Plattsburgh 
—Cow. Macdonough captures the British squadron 
on Lake Champlain 


EVERTHELESS, if difficulties and disasters 
befel the people of Columbia in the south, lo! there 
was a wreath of laurels weaving for them in the north. 

2 Behold ! a mighty army of the king had assem - 

bled together at the Village of Champlain, between 
Plattsburgh and Montreal ; nigh unto the place 
where Forsyth the warrior, the second Sumter, # was 
slain: r 

3 For the Prince Regent had commanded his ser¬ 
vants to go forth into the heart of the land of Colum- 


# Sumter , a brave officer in the American Revolu¬ 
tion, similar in character to Forsyth. 

The following lines were suggested to the mind of 
the writer , by viewing the spot where the remains of 
the gallant Forsyth lie interred,. On the 28th of June , 
1814, this enterprising officer made an incursion into 
Canada as far as 0 dies town, where an affair tool 
place with a detachment of the enemy from the. Pori 
Of La Cole. After hilling seventeen of their . number , 
Forsyth rccieved a wound in the neck of which 3 lie died 




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bia, and separate the states of the east from the rest of 
the country. 

4 So it Game to pass, about the fifth clay of tire 
ninth month, that the host of Britain appeared before ’ 
the village of Plattsburgh ; whicji lieth about three 
hundred miles from New-York, towards the north. 

5 Now Prevost, the governor of Canada, was the 
commander of the army ; and the number of his men 
of war was about fifteen thousand. 

G And they began to prepare their battering rams, 
their bombs and their rockets, and all kinds of instru¬ 
ments of destructio» $ and they entrenched themselves 
round about. 

7 Now the strong hold of Plattsburgh was hard 
by ; and the ban e Macomb was the chief- captain of 


in a feii) days after , and was buried , with military ho- 
nors, at Chamjjlain. 

-'Stop, traveller, stay—view well the ground 
Where Forsyth fought and bled 5 
Mark well the spot, for yonder mound, 

Contains the valiant dead. 

No cold neglect could check his zeal, 

His Country was his pride, 

And fighting for that Country's weal, 

The hero nobly died 1 

•No tomb-stone marks the dreary spot, 

Where deeps the warrior brave 
Whs fame, his actions, quite forgot 
And buried in his grave. 





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the hold ; ami the “number of his men was about fifteen 
hundred; being in the proportion of oat Yankee to ten 
invihcibles. 

8 Howsoever, the valiant husbandmen of the states 
of Vermont and New-York, called militia, commanded 
by Mooers, a man of great courage, assembled together, 
t ) a dst in the defence of the place, on the borders of 
the river Saranac, which emptieth its waters into lake 
Champlain. 

9 in the meantime, Downie, the chief captain of the 
fleet of Britain upon the lake, had prepared himself to 
assist Prevost on a certain day appointed, . 

10 When he was to come out against the fleet of 
Columbia, which was commanded by the gallant Mao 
donongh, 

11 Accordingly, it came to pass, on the appointed 
day, being the eleventh of the ninth monih, in the one 
thousand eight hundred and fourteenth year of the 
Christian era, 

12 And three hundred and sixty-five days after Oli¬ 
ver had captured the king’s fleet on the waters of Erie, 

13 That the strong vessels of Britain appeared, with 
their sails spread, moving upon the bosom of lake 
Champlain* coming against the fleet of Columbia. 

1 i Now it was in the morning, about the ninth hour, 
when Macdonough beheld the fleet of Britain sailing 
boldly towards him. 

15 And it was so, that the vessels of Columbia 
were safely moored in the bay of Plattsburgh, where 
they waited the approach of the enemy; w r ho were the 
strongest in numbers, and in their engines of death 


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-1G However, when they were about a furlong -off, 
they cast their anchors, and set themselves in battle a*- 
ray, squadron against squadron. 

17 Now the sound of the battle-drum was heard 
along 'the lake, and the brave mariners shouted aloud 
for the fight. 

3 8 Then began their destroying engines to utter their 
voices, and it was like unto the voice of mighty thun¬ 
ders. 

1 9 And the same hour, the armies on the shore be¬ 
gan the dreadful battle with their roaring engines'. 

20 So that on the land and on the waters the fire and 
smoke were abundant, and the noise thereof was tre¬ 
mendous beyond measure. 

21 And the battle waxed hot, and the vessels of 
•Downie fought bravely against the vessels of Macdon- 
ough : 

22 Nevertheless, the Lord of hosts favored the men 
of Columbia, and they overcame the servants of the 
king. 

23 For in about the space of three hours, the va¬ 
liant Macdonough and his brave men, captured the 
whole fleet of Britain, save a few gun-boats, that made 
good their escape. 

24 Now the killed and wounded of the king's fleet, 
were an hundred ninety and four ; and Downie, the 
chief captain, was amongst the slain. 

25 Moreover, the number of the captives of the 
•rnen of Britain was about -four hundred. 

2 d Now Macdonough was a good man, neither was 
be full of boasting and vain-glory : he arrogated _t,o 


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himsell no praise op account of his success, but ascribed 
die victory to the pleasure of die Almighty. 

27 And as it is written, in the word of the Lord* 

Do UNTO ALL MEN A"S YE WOULD THEY SHOULD DO 
unto you, so he took care of the prisoners, and em¬ 
ployed skilful physicians to bind up the wounds of the 
maimed. 

28 Then were the children of Columbia exceedingly 
rejoiced ; yea, their hearts were made glad 5 and they 
praised Macdonough for his noble deeds. 

29 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim honored him 5 
and a" piece of land, which overlooked! the lake, was- 
given unto him, for an inheritance; 

30 That, in his old age, and when lie was well 
stricken in years, he might remember with joy the 
strength of his youth, and smile upon the spot, where 
fleet to fleet, he triumphed over the enemies of free¬ 
dom ; 

31 And where his children’s children might point, 
and say, It was there the guardian angel of Co¬ 
lumbia permitted our father to humble the pride of 
Britain. 


HISTORICAL 


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CHAP. XLVIT. 


Battle of Plattsburgh — defeat of Sir George Pre- 

VQSt. 


JL^I OW while Macdonough was capturing the royal 
fleet of Britain, upon the lake, the gallant Macomb 
scattered destruction amidst the army of Prevost. 

2 And the battle raged with great violence, and tire 
men of Britain strove hard to pass over the river called 
Sararirgp ; 

3 But the men of war of Columbia,, who were upon 
the opposite side of the water, opposed them, and slew 
them' with great slaughter. 

d And the brave Grosvenor, and Hamilton, and 
Riley, and the gallant Cronk, drove them back from 
crossing the bridges. 

5 Likewise, many were slain in the river, so that the 
waters of the Saranac were dyed with the blood of 
the servants of the king. 

6 But Macomb kept the engines at work ; and 
Brooks, and Richards, arid Smith, who were in the 
forts, displayed much valor, and caused the engines to 
vomit fire and smoke, and balls of heavy metal. 

7 Howsoever, when Prevost saw that the king’s 
fleet was captured, he began to be disheartened, and his 
whole army was amazed. 



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8 Notwithstanding this, they continued to cast their 
b is, and their rockets, aftd their bomb-shells, and their 
sharpnells, with all their might. 

Now these sharpnells were unknown even to the 
children ot Columbia, for they were lately invented by 
the wise men of Britain. 

10 But the people of Columbia trusted in the 
strength of their arms, more than in the strength of 
-these shells, so they -used them not. 

11 Nevertheless, the army of the king fought hard, 
with their battering-rams, against the strong hold of Co¬ 
lumbia, until the setting of the sun, when their noises 
were silenced by the brave band of Columbia. 

12 So the same night, Prevost, and the iiivincibles of 
the king, fled towards the strong hold of Montreal ; 
leaving their sick and wounded behind to the mercy of 
the men of Columbia; destn^iugtheir provisions, which 
in (heir haste they could not carry away. 

Id And the men of Columbia followed them a little 
way, and slew some, and made many captives. 

14 Thus were the men of war of Britain conquered 
in the north, army against army, lleet against tleet, and 
squadron against squadron. 

15 And tiie killed and woun ded of the army of the 
king that dav, were about a thousand men ; and about 
three hundred who were tired of their bondage, left the 
service of the king, and joined the banners of the great 
Sanhedrim. 

10 Now Macomb received much praise for his bra- 


* Desert cm. 



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HISTORICAL 


snery ; and his name shall be remembered by ages.ye* ur- 
bon. 

17 Moreover, he spake well of all the officers and 
men who fought with him. 

18 And Mooers, who commanded the br&ve husband¬ 
men of New-York and Vermont, and Strong, the valiant 
chief captain of the men called volunteers, had great 
honor for their noble deeds. 

19 Likewise, Appling, and Wool, and Leonard and 
Sproul, distinguished themselves among the brave. 

20 But when the news of the Capture of the fleet, and 
the defeat of their mighty army, reached the lords of 
Britain, they put their fingers in their ears, that they 
might not hear it. 

21 Neither would they believe it; but when they 
found it was so of a truth, they were enraged out of 
measure. 

22 And their wise men and their counsellors said, Lo ? 

we have only been trifling with these Yankees ; now 
let us send forth a mighty fleet and an army to oyer r 
whelm them. \ ' 


header. 


ITS? 


CHAP. XLVIII. 

Attack 6ji Baltimore, by the British army , under Qm. 
Boss , and the fleet under Admirals Cochrane and 
Cockburn. 


N OVV when Ross and Cockburn returned from their 
burning and pillaging, and all the barbarities they com¬ 
mitted at Washington, the chief city, and the neighbor¬ 
hood thereof; 

2 Emboldened by the success of their unrighteous 
deeds, they gathered together their army and their navy* 
and essayed to go against the city of Baltimore, which 
lieth in the state of Maryland ; 

3 That thej r might commit the like wickedness, in 
which they had taken so much pleasure at Hampton^ 
IJavre-de-grace, and Washington. 

4 But they had a mightier place than Washington to 
go against ; for Baltimore is a great city, containing 
therein about fifty thousand souls, and the people had en* 
trenched it round about, and made it a strong place. 

5 So it came to pass, the next day after Macdonough 
had captured the fleet of Britain, on lake • Champlain; 
being the twelfth day of the ninth month, 

6 That their vessels and transports came to a place 
cuUed North Pojpt, which liefch at the mouth of the river 



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i bo 


Petapsco, about an hundred furlongs from the city, and 
began to put their men of war upon the shore. 

7 And the number of their chosen fighting men. who 
were landed, were about eight thousand. 

8 And when they were all moved out of the boats, 
Ross, the chief captain, conducted them on towards the 
city. 

9 As they moved along their instruments of war glit¬ 
tered in the beams ol the sun $ and the waving of their 
squadrons was like unto the troubled waters of the 
ocean. 

10 However, when they came to a place called 
Bear Creek, lo ! the army of Columbia met them in bat* 
tie array. 

11 For, when the gallant young men of Baltimore 
heard the rumor, that the soldiers of Britain were com¬ 
ing upon them ; 

12 With 'the spirit of freemen, they grasped their 
weapons of war in their hands, and went out to meet 
them without fear ; resolved to conquer or to die.* 

13 For well they knew, that life would be a burthen 
to them, when their habitations were consumed with fire } 
their parents slaughtered 5 and the innocence of their 
wives and sisters violated. 

14 Now the name of the chief captain of the army of 

Columbia was Samuel, whose sir-name was Smith :f 
a valiant man, who had fought in the days of Washmo-ton 
and gained much honor. 0 ' 


Although it may be said the British were not 
quered ; yet they were defeated . 


t Gen, Smith. 






reader. 


181 


3 j Moreover, Samuel was a man well stricken in 
>ears, and he had many brave captains under him j 
eveifcStricker, and Stansbury, and Winder were with 
him. 

iG Now it was somewhat after the mid-day when 
the engines of destruction began their roaring noises : 

17 And the fire and smoke were vomited forth out 
©f their mouths, so that the light of the sun was hid¬ 
den by the means of the black clouds that filled the air- 

18 And their rockets, and all their instruments of 
death, which the sons of men have employed their un¬ 
derstandings to invent j were used abundantly. 

19 Now the battle waxed hot, and the gallant Striek¬ 
er, and his brave men, fought hard : and it was a dread¬ 
ful fight, 

20 Inasmuch as the slain and wounded of the king 
that day, were about four hundred ; and the loss of the 
men of Columbia was two hundred. 

21 Moreover, Ross, the chief captain of the host of 
Britain, was amongst the slain ; a bov, who had accom¬ 
panied his father to battle, had taken dreadful aim at 
Ross, with his ride, and killed him : 

22 And the people of Columbia grieved only be¬ 
cause it was not Cockburn the wicked, who had fallen ; 
for a man, whose name was O'Boyle, had offered five 
hundred pieces of silver for each of his ears. 

2 3 Nevertheless, the men of Columbia were no: . 
powerful enough to overcome the servants of the king ; 
so they diew back into their entrenchments, and strong^ 
holds, that were upon the high places round about the-' 


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HISTORICAL 


24 And Rogers, aud Findley, and Harris, and 
Stiles were among the captains of the strong holds ; 
and were all faithful men. 

25 But it came to pass, the next day, when the men 
of Britain saw that the men of Columbia were well 
prepared for battle, that they were afraid to go against 
the strong holds. 

26 So in the middle of the night, which was dark 
and rainy, they departed from the place, and returned 
to their vessels, that they might escape the evil that was 
preparing for them. 

27 Moreover, they took the dead body of Ross, 
their chief captain, with them, and cast it into a vessel, 
filled with the strong waters of Jamaica ; 

28 That the instrument of their wickedness might 
he preserved, and conveyed to the king, their master, 
and be buried in his own country. 

29 Now it came to pass, in the meantime, that 
Cochrane, and Cockburn the wicked, the chief captain, 
of the mariners of the king, sailed up the river Petap- 
sco, towards the strong hold of Fort M’Henry, to as¬ 
sail it. 

50 Now tire strong hold of M’Henry lieth about fif¬ 
teen furlongs from the city; and the name of the chief 
captain thereof was Armistead, a man of courage : al¬ 
beit, he was sick. 

51 And when the strong vessels of the king drew 
nigh unto the fort, they cast their rockets and thei* 
bomb-shells into it plentifully, and strove hard to drive 
thp men of Columbia away. 


RLA'DER, 1.8-5 

32 But the gallant Armistead let the deslro) lug en¬ 
gines loose upon them without mercy; and they cast 
mv :heir thunders, winged with death, among the ser¬ 
vants of the king. 

33 The loud groans of their wounded floated upon 
the waters, with an aw ful horror that shocked the ear 

of humanity. 

3d And it was so, that when Cockburn found be 
could not prevail against the strong hold, he also depart¬ 
ed from the river, neither came they* against the place 
any more.* 


* One cf the gallant defenders of Fort M'Henry 
Jins celebrated this circumstance in deathless verse. 
His poetry is so exquisite , and his descriptions so pa¬ 
thetic y that 're cannot resist the pleasure of presenting 
his stanzas to our readers. 


Tiie Star-S r angled Banner. 

O ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, 

What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight's Jast 
gleaming, 

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the peri¬ 
lous fight, 

0 ? er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallanth 
streaming? 

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, 

<5ave proof through the night that our flag was still 
there ; 

O ! say, does that star-spangled banner vet wave, 
■O’er the land of tlie free* and the home of the brave-? 





184 HISTORICAL 

55 Now when the men of Columbia heard that 
Ross, the chief captain of the king, was slain, and the 
host of Britain was compelled to flee from before the 
oity, they were exceedingly rejoiced. 


On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the 
deep, 

}Vhere the foe’s haughty host in dread silence re¬ 
poses, 

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering 
steep, 

As it fitfully blows, Half conceals, half discloses ? 
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, 

In full glory reflected now shines on the stream. 

’Tis the star-spangled banner, O ! long may it wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore 

That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, 
A home and a country, should leave us no more ! 

Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pol¬ 
lution. 

No refuge could save the hireling and slave, 

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, 
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth 
wave, * 

O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 
O ! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, 

Between their lov’d home, and the war’s desolation. 
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heaven rescu’d 
land, 

Praise the Power that hath made and preserv’d us a 
nation ! 

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 

And this be our motto—“ In God is our trust 

And the star-spangled banner in- triumph shall 
wave 

0’er the land of thefeee) and t-kctamj of the brave. 






READER. 


36 And the brave defenders of Baltimore bad 
great praise and honor given tliem throughout the 

land. 

37 And the names of those who fell in the contest, 
are they not written on the monument which the grati¬ 
tude of the people of Baltimore erected to the memory 
of its defenders? 





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*•3.6 


CHAP. XLIX. 

Destruction of the privateer Gen. Armstrong, Sam¬ 
uel C. Read, captain—Scorpion and Tigress cap¬ 
tured — U. S. frigate Adams burnt — Castine — 
Fort Boyer attacked—destruction of the pirates 
at Barrataria , by Com. Patterson — Gen. Jackson 
captures Pensacola, and returns to New Orleans^ 


OW the loud and frightful noise of war sounded 
upon the bosom of the great deep; and the shores 
of Columbia knew no peace. 

2 1 he dreadful clangor of arms rung upon the land* 
and echoed from the mountains; and the groans of suffer¬ 
ing victims floated in the air of heaven. 

3 But the Lord favored the people of Columbia* 
and their armies and their navy gained strength, and 
prosperity was showered upon them : the voice of 
w ar became familiar to tnose wno where strangers to 
it in times past, 

4 Now on the twenty-sixth day of the ninth month, be¬ 
ing in the thirty and ninth year of American Indepen¬ 
dence, 

5 It came to pass, that a certain private armed ves- 
sel of the people of Columbia, .called the General 
Armstrong, commanded by Samuel, whose sir-name 
was Rea;!, 



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187 


<5 Had cast her anchors in the haven of Fayal, an 
island in the sea, which lietli towards the rising sum, 
about two thousand miles from the land of Columbia ; 

7 A place where, two score and ten years ago, there 
was a mighty earthquake ; and where poisonous reptiles 
never dwell. 

8 And it was about the dusk of the evening when 
Samuel saw a number of the strong vessels of Britain 
hemming him in: so he drew nigh to the shore for 

•safety, for the place was friendly to both powers. 

9 Nevertheless, the boats from the vessels of the king 
went against Samuel to take his vessel; but with 
his weapons of war he drove them off and slew numbers 
of them, so that they were glad to escape to their 
strong ships. 

10 However, they quickly returned with a greater 
number of boats, and about four hundred men ; and Sa¬ 
muel saw them, and prepared to meet them. 

11 The silver beams of the moan danced upon the 
gently rolling waves of the ocean, and the sound ot 
the oar again broke the sweet silence of night. 

12 But, when they came nigh the vessel of Samuel, 
the men of Columbia poured out destruction upon them 
with a plentiful hand $ 

13 Inasmuch as they were again compelled to de-. 
j part to their strong vessels with dreadlul loss. 

14 However, about the dawning of the day, one ot 
the strong vessels, called the Carnation, came against 
the vessel of Columbia, and let her destroying engines 
loose with great fury. 

15 Now Lloyd, who commanded the Plantagenct 




iS8 historical 

was the chief captain of the king,, in the place 3 - and he 
violated the law of nations. 

16 So, when Samuel saw that the whole fleet of 
Britain were bem on destroying his vessel, in defiance 
of the plighted honor of nations, he ordered hei to be 
sunk. 

17 After which he and his brave mariners deserted 
her, and went upon the shore; and the servants ol the 
kiu^ came and burnt her with fire in the neutral port ol 

o 

Fayal. # ■ 

18 Nevertheless, they received the reward of their 
unrighteousness, for much damage was done to their 
vessels, and their slain and wounded were two hundred 
tw o score and ten. 

19 Of the people of Columbia two only were slain 
and seven maimed ! ! 

20 And the valiant deeds of Samuel gained him a 
name amongst the brave men of Columbia. 

21 Now, in the same month, the Scorpion and the 
Tigress, two fighting vessels of Columbia, on lake Hu¬ 
ron, were captured by the men of Britain. 

22 Likewise, about this time, there were numerous 
other evils that befel the sons of Columbia; 

28 Inasmuch as a brave captain, whose sir-name was 
Morris, was obliged to consume his ship with fire, 
lest she should fail into the hands of the enemy; and 

she was called the Adams.* 

24 Now this was at a. place called Castine, which 

was forcibly occupied by the. strong ships of Britain, 


* U. S' frigate Adame, 







READER, 


189 


r-and iieth to the east, in the District* of Maine : more** 
ovcr ? it became a watering place for the servants of the 
king. 

25 But when James, the chief governor,, and the 
great Sanhedrim, knew thereof, they sent word to the 
governor, and offered him soldiers to drive them from 
the borders of Columbia ; 

26 But, lo ! the governor, even Caleb the Strong, 
refused his aid, for he was afraid of the wrath of the 
king of Britain.*' 

27 (Now Caleb, in the Hebrew tongue, signifieth «. 
dog ; but, verily, this dog was faithless.) 

28 Moreover, it came to pass, about the same time 
that the strong hold of Fort Boyer, being at a place 
called Mobile-point, w as attacked by the strong ships 
of Britain. 

29 Now Mobile had lately been the head quarters 
and the resting-place of the army of Jackson the 
brave; 

SO But the enemies-of Columbia had become tumul¬ 
tuous at a place called bv the- Spaniards, Pensacola,, 
whither lie had departed to quell them ; 

31 So that the fort was defended by only a handful 
of men, commanded by the gallant Lawrence. 

32 And the names of the vessels ot tiie king, that 
assailed the fort, were the Hermes, the Charon, and 
the Sophie, besides other lighting vessels $ which open¬ 
ed" their fires upon the strong hold. 

33 Nevertheless* Lawrence was net dismayed, ah 


* Sec the letter of See. Monroe , and Strong's cmsrefff 

> > 





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though Woodbine,* the white savage, came in his 
rear, with one of the destroying engines and a howitzer, 
an instrument of Satan, and about two hundred savages- 

34 So when Lawrence let his engines of death 
loose upon them, and had showered the whizzing balls 
amongst them, for about the space of three hours, they 
i?ed. 

35 And the slaughter on board the ships was dread¬ 
ful ; and about three hundred of the men of Britain 
were slain, and the Hermes was blown out of the wa¬ 
ter into the air with an awful noise. 

36 The loss of the people of Columbia that day, 
was four slain and five maimed. 

3 7 About this time a band of sea-robbers and pi¬ 
rates, who had established themselves upon the island 
of Bariataria, were committing great wickedness and 
depredations; and were ready to assist the men of 
Britain. 

38 But a valiant man, called Daniel, sir-named 
Patterson, went against them with his small fighting 
vessels,! and scattered them abroad, and took their 
vessels, and destroyed their petty establishment of sea- 
robbery. 

3.9 Now it came to pass, when Jackson heard that 
Pensacola, the capital of West-Flgrida, had become 
a resting-place for the enemies of Columbia; and that 
the men of Britain occupied the place, and hfid built 
them a strong hold therein ; 


J I'M celebrated Capt. Woodbine , of the British navy • 
f Gvn-bcats, 





READER. 


191 


40 From whence they sent forth the weapons of 
war ? and the black dust among the savages, to destroy 
the people of Columbia ; and that the servants , of the 
king of Spain were afraid to prevent the wickedness 
thereof $ 

41 Behold! he, even Jackson, went out against the 
place with a band of five thousand fighting men, the 
brave sons of Tennessee and other parts of Columbia. 

42 And it was early in the morning of the seventh 
day of the eleventh month, when the host of Columbia 
appeared before the walls of Pensacola. 

43 And immediately Jackson sat the engines of de¬ 
struction to work ; and the smoke thereof obscured tire 
weapons of w r ar. 

44 Now when the governor of the place heard the 
noise of the engines of death and the clashing of arms, 
he was smitten with fear; 

45 Insomuch that Jackson, the chief captain, who 
with his army had encompassed the place, quickly 
compelled him to surrender the town, and beg for mer¬ 
cy ; which was granted unto him and his people, even 
the Spaniards. 

46 Now when the men of Britain saw this, they put 
the match to the black dust in their strong hold, and it. 
rent the air with a tremendous noise. 

47 After which they lied from the land into their 
strong ships, that were in the haven of Pensacola. 

48 And Jackson, having accomplished his purpose, 
returned with his army, in triumph, to the city of New- 
Urjeans, on the second day of the twelfth month. 



HISTORICAL 


492 


CHAP. L. 

Steam-boats — Fulton — torpedoes—attempt to blow up 
the Plantqgenet—kidnapping Joshua Fenny . 


:±\ OW, it happened that, in the land of Columbia, 
there arose up wise and learned men, whose cunning 
had contrived and invented many useful things. 

2 Among these there appeared one whose ingenuity 
was exceedingly great, inasmuch as it astonished all the 

- inhabitants of the earth ; 

3 Now the name of this man was Robert, sir-named 
Fulton; but the cold hand of death fell upon him, and 
he slept with his fathers, on the twenty and third day of 
the second month of the eighteen hundred and fifteenth 
year of the Christian era. 

4 However, the things which he brought into practice 
in his life time will be recorded, and his name spoken 
of by generations yet unborn. 

5 Although, like other men of genius, in these days, 
he was spoken of but slightly at first; for the people 
said, Lo ! the man is beside himself ! and they laughed 
at him ; nevertheless, he exceeded their expectations. 

6 For it came to pass, that (assisted by Livingston, 
a man of wealth, and a lover of arts and learning) he 
was enabled to construct certain curious vessels, called 

•4ft the vernacular tongue, steam-boats. 



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193 


7 Now these steam-boats were cunningly contrived, 
and had abundance of curious workmanship therein, 
such a$ surpassed the comprehension of all the wise 
men of the east, from the beginning to this day. 

8 Ilowbeit, they were fashioned somewhat like unto 
tbe first vessel that floated.upon the waters, which was 
the afk of Noah, the ninth descendant from '.dam ; 

9 And that they might heat the water which produ¬ 
ced the steam, there was a fiery furnace placed in the 
midst of the vessels, and the smoke issued from the tops 
thereof. 

10 Moreover, they had, as it were, wheels within 
wheels; and they moved fast upon the waters, even 
against the wind and the tide. 

11 And they first began to move upon the great 
river Hudson, passing to and fro, from New-York to 
Albany, in the north, conveying the people hither and 
thither in safety. 

12 But when the scoffers, the enemies of Fulton, 
and the garnsayers, saw that the boats moved pleasantly 
upon the river, they began to be ashamed of their own 
ignorance and stupidity, and were fain to get into the 
boats themselves; alter which, instead ot laughing, 
they gaped at the inventor with astonishment. 

13 And it came to pass, that the great Sanhedrim 
were pleased with the thing, inasmuch as they directed 

a fiditiim vessel of Columbia to be built alter this man- 

© & \ 

ner. 

i d So a vessel was built to carry the destroying en¬ 
dues, even a steam frigate, and they called the name 
thereof Fulton the First : 

JO Yid certain skilful men vert appointed cornism- 
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194 HISTORICAL 

sioners to construct this new and dreadful engine of de¬ 
struction, 

16 And Samuel, a philosopher, sir-named Mitchel, 
,a citizen of Now-York, was one of the commissioners ; 
also, Rutgers, and Morris, and Wolcot, and Dearborn, 
were other commissioners ; and they all gave their ser¬ 
vices freely for the good of their •country. 

17 Now she was equipped with thirty of tlte engines 
of destruction ; and the weight of a ball that they vom¬ 
ited forth was about a thousand shekels. 

18 And, when the movement of the frigate was seen 
on the river, she was as a strong Seating battery upon the 
waters, terrible as death. 

19 And the length thereof was abouKm hundred cu¬ 
bits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits : 

20 Moreover, as they had no gophar-wood, they 
built the vessel partly of the locust-tree, and pertly of 
the majestic oak that flourishes in the extensive forests 

• of Columbia. 

21 But it came to pass, when the wise men and the 
people of Britain heard of this steam frigate, they were 
seized with astonishment and fright; inasmuch as it be¬ 
came a monster in their imaginations. 

22 And they spake concerning it, saying, Lo ! the 
length of this wonder of the world, which hath been in¬ 
vented by these cunning .Yankees, is about two hundred 
cubits, and the breadth thereof an hundred thirty and 
five cubits : 

23 The number of her destroying engine's is very 
.'great; and the weight of a ball which she vomiteth 

forth, is about a thousand five hundred two score and 
-4cn shekels; 


24 Moreover, said they, she is prepared to cast 
forth scalding water in showers upon tire servants of 
the king, which will delbrin their countenances a ml 
spoil their beauty : 

25 Likewise, they have prepared her with two-edged 
swords, which, by means of the steam of the vessel, 
issue like lightning out of her sides. 

26 And now, also, the cunning and witchcraft of 
these Yankees, these sons of Belial, the&e children of 
Beelzebub, have invented another instrument of de- 

fstruc-.ion, more subtile than all the rest : 

27 Yea, these are mighty evil things, and they 
called torpedoes, which may be said to signify sleeping 
devils ; which come, as a thief in the night, to destroy 
the servants of the king; and were contrived by ikjii 
arch fiend, whose name was Fulton. 

2S Now these wonderful torpedoes were made partly 
of brass and partly of iron, and were cunningly con¬ 
trived with curious works, like ulTto a clock ; and as it 
. .were a large ball. 

•SO And, alter they were prepared, and a great 
quantity of the black dust put therein, they were let 
down into the water, nigh unto the strong ships, with 
intent to destroy them ; 

30 And it was so, that when they struck against the 
bottom of the ship, tire blatk dust in the torpedo 
. would catch fire, and burst forth with tremendous roar, 
casting the vessel out - oi the waters and bursting her 
in twain. 

31'Now these torpedoes were brought into practice 
during the war, although- the war ceased before they did 


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196 

that destruction to the enemies of Columbia, for which 

they were intended. 

32 However, a certain man of courage and enter* 
prize, whose name was Mix, prepared one of the 
torpedoes, and put it into the waters of the deep, at 
a place called Lyn-Haven Bay, at the mouth of the 
great bay of Chesapeake, nigh unto the town of Nor¬ 
folk, in the state of Virginia; 

S3 And it moved towards a strong ship of Britain, 
called the Plantagenet, after one of the former princes 
of England * but an accident happened a little before 
it reached the vessel, and burst it asunder in the waters 
with a tremendous noise ; 

34 And spouted the water up into the air, doth 
the mighty whale, and the sound thereof was, as it 
were the voice of thunder ; 

So And the servants of the' king were frightened 
horribly by the means thereof: after which they trem¬ 
bled at the name torpedo !■—and were obliged to guard 
their vessels in the night, and put a double watch upon 
them ; 

36 Moreover, they condemned this mode of warfare, 
saying : Verily, this is a foul fashion of lighting ; inas¬ 
much as by your cunning ye Yankees take the advan¬ 
tage of us ; and the thing is new unto us. 

37 But they had wilfully forgotten, that in the life 
time of Fulton, they had offered him forty thousand 
pieces of gold, if he would bring these torpedoes into 
practice in their own country, that they might use them 
against the Gauls,* with whom they warred coutinu- 


* This was about the time of the Boulogne flotilla 




HEADER. 


m 


ally for more than twenty years : Ilowbeit they proved 
faithless to Fniton, and so lie did it not for them. 

38 Moreover, it came to pass, that a certain man, a 
pilot, even Joshua, sir-named Penny, became a victim 
•of their spite, because he attempted to go against them 
with the torpedoes to drive them out of the waters of 
Columbia. 

39 Now Joshua lived at a place called East Hamp¬ 
ton, being at the east end of Long Island, near Gard¬ 
ner’s Island, opposite New London. 

40 And the men of Britain came to his house in the 
night, and stole him away, even out of his bed, and car¬ 
ried him Oil board a vessel of the king, called the Ra¬ 
mifies, from whence he was conveyed to Halifax, in the 
province of Nova Scotia. 

4 Now while Joshua remained in the dungeons of 
the king lie was treated with the inhospitality of barba¬ 
rians ) moreover, they strove to lead him astray : but 
lie proved faithful to his God and to his country; for 
he had known the wickedness of Britain in times 
past.* 

43 However, they kept him in bondage many 
months, after which they suffered him to go to his own 
country. 

43 For the chief governor of the land of Columbia, 
and the great Sauhedrim, in their wisdem, had ordered 


* Joshua Penny had been, previous to the icar, im¬ 
pressed in the British service, and kept in it a number 
of yean. 




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two of the servants of the king to be taken and held as 
hostages fe?r his safe return ; and, but for this thing, 
they would have hanged him, even as a man hangeth a 


Affairs in and about New-York, the first commercial 
city in America—working on the fortifications of 
Brooklyn and Haerlem—capture of the British 
tender Eagle, by the Yankee smack■ 

NOW, as good sometimes comctfe out of evil, .so 
the people of New-York, a great city, which lieth at 
the mouth of the river IJudsou, nigh the sea coast, and 
containeth more than an hundred thousand souls, 

2 When they beheld the wickedness that was com¬ 
mitted by the servants of the king, to the south and 
I round about, began to bestir themselves, and prepare 
I for the dangers with which they were likely to be en- 
j compassed : 

S So it came to pass, that the husbandmen from the 
| surrounding country gathered together, and pitched 
I their tents hard by the city. 

4 And the number that came to the defence of the 
plaoe was about thirty thousand valiant men ; moreover 
there were about live thousand husbandmen from the 
state of New-Jersey,* 


* The exertions of Daniel D. Thompkins , governor 
of the state of N. York, at this time, will long be re¬ 
membered by the people. 





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5 Now these men were called Jersey Bines, and 
they were encamped partly at Paules Hook, and part¬ 
ly at a place called the Narrows, which lieth to the 
smith of the city about an hundred furlongs, where the 
destroying engines were placed in multitudes. 

6 And when the term of the engagement of these 
men of Jersey expired, they grieved only that their 
time was spent for nought ; tor they were ready and 
well prepared to meet the servants of the king. 

7 Nevertheless, it was so that the freemen who came 
to the defence of die city, built strong holds and forts., 
and raised up fortifications in abundance, inasmuch as' 
the whole place was as it were one camp. 

8 Moreover, on the tenth day of the eighth month, 
in the eighteen hundred and fourteenth year, the inhabi¬ 
tants assembled together in the midst of the city, even 
in a place called the Park, w here the Federal Hall, a 
superb edifice, rears its majestic front 5 within the walls 
of which the wise men, the expounders of the law,, 
preside, and deliberate for the benefit of the people. 

9 Now it was about the twelfth hour of the day 
w'hen the people,began to gather themselves together; 
and, from the porch of the hall, the aged Willet,* with 
the star-spangled banner of Columbia waving over 
llis silvery he iu, addressed the surrounding multitude. 

H) And the people shouted with a loud voice, for 
the words of his mouth were pleasant to the sons of 
Liberty, and were in this wise : 


* Cof- Willet, of New-York » 



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11 Lo ! three score and fourteen years have brought 
with them their bodily infirmities; but were my strength 
as unimpaired as my love for my country, and that 
soul which still animates me, ye would not have found 
me in the forum, but in the midst of the battle, fight- 
1 n g against the enemies of freedom. 

12 Thus did he encourage the people to prepare 
themselves for the protection of the city. 

13 And certain wise men were appointed by the 
people to bring these things into operation.* 

14 So the people began to fortify themselves and 
entrench the high places round about the city. 

15 And when they went out in its defence, to build 
their strong holds and to raise up their battlements; 
lo ! the steam-boats of Fulton conveyed them thither, 
about a thousand at a time, even towards the heights of 
Brooklyn in the east, and the heights of llaerlem in the 
north. 

1 6 The young and the old, the rich and the poor* 
went out together; and took with them their bread and 
their wine; and, cast up the earth for the defence of 
the place, freely, and w ithout cost to the state.! - 

17 And when they went into the boats to crossover 
the l iver, there was loud shouting in the boats, and on 
the shore. 


* Committee of safely, composed of the Aldermen 
of the city, and their assistants. 

t The services rendered on this.occasion, by that re¬ 
spectable class of citizens, the firemen of new* 
yo^K, were particularly conspicuous. 

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2 ? Moreover, as they passed along up the • Hudson, 
towards the heights of Haerlem, the fair daughters of’ 
Columbia, with hearts glowing with- patriotism, waved 
their lily hands in token of applause. 

19 Likewise, bands of men came from the neigh¬ 
bourhood round about ; even from Newark, and Pat¬ 
terson, and Paules Hook, which lie in the state of New- 
.Tersey. 

20 They had also captains appointed over their 
bands ; and Abraham arid David were two among the 
captains. # 

21 Now Abraham, with his band,, came a great way, 
even>from the town of Patterson, where the wonderful 
waterfalls pour headlong over the rocky mountains, re¬ 
flecting-in the sun a thousand brilliant rainbows. 

22 Thus for an hundred days did the people of New<* 
York prepare themselves for danger, and cast up en¬ 
trenchments for many furlongs round about the city; 
so that the people of Britain were afraid to go against it.f 


Major Godwin and Major Hunt . 
f So great teas the enthusiasm of the people ir con¬ 
tributing their personal sendees to the erection of for¬ 
tifications on the heights of Haerlem and Brooklyn, 
that scarcely could an individual he found in the po¬ 
pulous city of Hew-York, from hoary age to tender 
youth, capable of using a mattock or a spade , who did 
not volunteer his services in this work of patriotism . 
Even the Ladies were conspicuous in aiding and 
cheering the labours of their. Fathers, their Husbands 9 
their Brothers, and their Children. Amongst others , 
the numerous societies of Freemasons joined in a body, 
and headed by their Grand-Mister ,* who urns also 
*■ Hon Do Witt Clinton, now governor of the state of New-York. 





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23 Ne veriheiess the strong ships of war of Britain 
moved upon the waters of the ocean around the place 
in numbers, but they were afraid to approach the city ; 
for when they came nbtb, the men of Columbia let the- 
destroying engines loose upon them, even those tha; 


Mayor of the city , proceeded to Brooklyn , and assist¬ 
ed very spiritedly in its defence. On this occasion 
an elderly gentleman , one of the order , who had two 
sons (his only children) in the service of his country , 
one of them highly distinguished during the tear for 
his wounds and his bravery , sung the following stanzas , 
in 1us own character of Mason and Father , whilst the 
Lodges were at ref reshment: 

I. 

Hail, Children of light! whom the Charities send, 
Where the bloodhounds of Britain are shortly ex¬ 
pected ; 

Who, your countrj T , your wives, your firesides to defend, 
Op the summit of Brooklyn have ramparts erected 
Firm and true to the trade, 

Continue your aid, 

Till the top-sto^e With shouting triumphant is laid 
The free and accepted will never despair, 

Led on by their worthy Grand Master and Mayor. 

II. 

For me, whose dismissal must shortly arrive, 

To Heav’n 1 prefer this my fervent petition : 
u May I never America's freedom survive, 

Nor behold her disgrac’d by a shameful submission : 
“ And, though righteously steel’d, 

“ If at last she must yield, 

“ May my sons do their duty, and die in the field *.” 
But the free and accepted will never despair, 

Led cn by their worthy Grand Master and Mayor. 


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Vomited forth whizzing balls, like shooting stars, red 
from the fiery furnace. 

24 Notwithstanding, the haughty captains of the 
ships of Britain would send in their boats to rob the 
market-men and the fishermen : howbeit, they were 
sometimes entrapped. 

25 For it came to pass, upon a certain day, that the 
Poictiers, a mighty ship of the king, lying at a place 
called Sandy-Hook, sent out one of her tenders, even 
the Eagle, in search of this kind of plunder : 

26 Whereupon, a fishing boat of Columbia, called 
the Yankee, under the direction of a chief captain 
called Lewis,* prepared herself with a number of men 
to entrap the Eagle. 

27 So they took a fatted calf, a bleating lamb, and 
a noisy goose, and placed them upon the deck of the 
boat; and when the servants of the king came nigh 
the Yankee, thinking they were about to be treated 
handsomely with the good things of the land of Co¬ 
lumbia, their hearts were rejoiced ; 

28 And they commanded the vessel called the Yan¬ 
kee to follow after them, towards the ship of the king, 
their master; but at this moment the men of Columbia 
arose up from their hiding-places in the hold of the 
boat, and shot into the vessel of Britain. 

29 At the sound of which they were so astonished, 
that they forgot to put the match to the black dust of 


* Commodore Lewis, commander of the flotilla in 
the harbor of New.York — Sailiug-master Pcrcival 
gallantly conducted this expedition . 




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the huge howitzer, a destructive engine made of biass ; . 
which they had prepared to destroy the men of Colium 
bia. 

30 So they were confused, and surrendered the Ea- ' 
. gle up to the Yankee. 

31 And as they came up to the city, before the Bat¬ 
tery, which is a beautiful place to the south thereof, the 
thousands who were assembled there, to celebrate the 
Columbian Jubilee,* rent the air with loud shouts of 
joy, whilst the roaring engines echoed to the skies. 

32 Thus was the lamb preserved, and the proud and 
cunning men of Britain outwitted with a iV lted calf and 
a Yankee goose. 


^ . inter<rf;n in hpendmrr. 



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CHAP. LIL 

.Jffairs on the ocean—-privateer Prince of Ncitfcha- 
tel—Marquis of Tweedale defeated in Upper Cana¬ 
da—Capture of the President—loss of the Sylph 
—Capture of the Cyane and the Levant by the Con¬ 
stitution—capture of the St. Lauxrence—capture 
of the Penguin by the Hornet, captain Biddle. 


StILL there was no peace, and the evils of war 
continued on the face of the deep, and the waters 
thereof were encrimsoned with the blood of man. 

2 And it came to pass, on the eleventh day of the 
tenth month, in the eighteen hundred and fourteenth 
year, that there was a sore battle fought between five 
barges from the Endymion, a strong ship of the king, 
and a privateer, called -the Prince of Neufchatel, com¬ 
manded by the valiant Ordonneaux, a man of Gaul. 

3 Moreover, the number of the men of Britain 
were threefold greater than the people of Columbia; 
and the fight happened near unto a place called Nan¬ 
tucket, in the east, journeying towards Boston. 

4 Now they sat their engines to work with dreadful 
violence; but in about the third part of an hour the 
barges of the king’s ship were overcome; and more 
to toe score and ten of the men of Britain were 


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shun and maimed : the loss in the privateer was si;: 
slain, and about a score wounded. 

5 ;\ T o\v this battle happened in the same month in 
which more than a thousand men of the warriors of 
Britain, commanded by the Marquis of Tweedale, 
were defeated at Black Creek, in Upper Canada, aini 
driven to their strong holds by the men of Columbia, 
under the gallant Bissel.* 

6 Ten days after which the steam frigate, Fulten 
the First, was launched forth into the waters at New- 
York. 

7 And it came to pass, on the fifteenth day of the 
first month of the next year, that one of the tall ships 
of Columbia fell into the hands of the servants of die 
king; 

8 And she was called the President, after the title 
of the chief magistrate of the land of Columbia; more¬ 
over, she was commanded by the gallant Decatur, 

9 Who, but for an accident that befel his ship the day 
before,! whilst he was moving out of the harbor of 
New-York, would have outsailed the fleet of Britain, and 
escaped, as did the brave and persevering Hull, of the 
Constitution, in the first year of the war4 

10 Nevertheless, it was so, that Decatur was, as it 
were, surrounded by the ships of die king, even five 


* Gen. Bissel . 

f She vorts injured by grounding off Sandy Hook. 

| Commodore Hull, in this affair , gained much ap¬ 
plause, for hid manoeuvres in escaping from the British 



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SO 3 

of them: so one of the vessels, called the. Endymion, ! 
mil upon him, and Decatur fought hard against her, and 
would have taken her ; 

I i But the rest of the strong ships came down upon 
d-iim, and opened their thundering engines,. and com¬ 
pelled him to surrender his ship to the fleet of Britain. 

12 However, .it was a bloody fight; and there fell 
'of.the men of Columbia that day twenty and four that 

w ere slain outright, and about two score and ten were 
maimed, after having kept the destroying engines to 
work about the space of three hours : howbeit, Decatur 
lost no honor thereby. 

13 Two days after this, a strong vessel of the king, 
called the Sylph, was cast away, in a dreadful storm, 
at a place called Southampton, being on Long-Island,' 
where more than an hundred men oi Britain perished, 1 
in the dead of the night ; and the vessel parted asunder 
and was lost. 

14 Moreover, there were six of the men of Britain 
wh6 survived their brethren, and were preserved -on 
pieces of the wreck, until the next day, when the 
neighbouring people took them into their houses and 
nourished them ; 

15 And, when they were sufficiently recovered, that' 
misfortune might not bear too heavy uprni them, they 
were clad, and silver given to them, and they were] 
;-ent to their, own country, at the expense of the people; 

> of Columbia. 

*1G (Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain 
mercy,- saith the scripture.) 

IT Now it came to pass, in these days, whilst the 
Meet of Britain captured the vessels of Colombia, wMu 



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they caught them singly upon the ocean, that the single 
ships of Columbia began to capture the ships of Britain 
by pairs : 

18 Inasmuch as it happened on the twentieth day 
of the second month of the same year, that a certain 
strong vessel called the Constitution, commanded by 
the brave Stewart, fell in with two of the strong ships 
of the king, and compelled them both, in the space of 
forty minutes, to strike the red cross of Britain to the 
stars of Columbia. 

19 And the slain and wounded of the king’s ships 
were seventy and seven j of the men of Columbia 
three were slain and twelve maimed : and the names 
of the vessels of Britain were the Cyane and the Le¬ 
vant ; but the Levant was retaken in a neutral port)* 
by two strong ships of the king.t 

20 Now the valiant Stewart and his brave men gat 
great praise for their deeds, even the great Sanhedrim 
of the people honored them, and gave them twenty 
thousand pieces of silver. 

21 In the same month the gallant Boyle, command¬ 
ing the privateer Chasseur, captured the St. Lawrence, 
a fighting vessel of the king, in the fourth part of an 
hour. 

22 And the killed and wounded of the St. Law¬ 
rence were thirty and eight; and the Chasseur had five 
slain and eight maimed. 

23 Moreover, it came to pass, on the twenty-third 
day of the next month, that another fighting vessel of 


* Porto Prava. 


$ Acasta ami Newcastle* 




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ilO 

lie king, called the Penguin, was taken by the Hornet, 
a strong vessel of Columbia, commanded by a man of 
valor, whose sir-name was Biddle. 

24 However, the battle was a bloody one, and the 
vessels kept their engines of destruction fiercely in 
motion, for about the space of half an hour before 
the flag of Britain was lowered to the stripes of Colum¬ 
bia. 

25 And the slaughter was great; for there fell of 
the men of Britain two score and one : but the slain of 
Columbia was only one, and the maimed were eleven. 

26 And Biddle was ■ honored greatly for his cou« 

rage: , 

2 7 But this was the last sea-fight of importance, be¬ 
ing near the close of the war. 

^28 Now about this time the navy of Columbia had 
increased more than fourfold, and the fame thereof had 
extended to all nations. 

29 For, though Columbia was young, even as it 
were in the gristle of her youth; yet she now began 
to resume the appearance, and display the vigor of 
manhood. 


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Chap. liii. 

British fleet arrives near N&v-Orleans—the Ameri¬ 
can flotilla captured -— attacks by the British upon 
the army of Gen. Jackson. 


1 % OW, when the lords and the counsellors;, and the 
wise men of Britain, heard of all the tribulations that 
befel them in the land of Columbia, they were troubled 
in their minds. 

2 And as they had made what they called a demon¬ 
stration at Baltimore, they bethought themselves of ma¬ 
king another demonstration in the south. 

3 (Now the true signification, in the vernacular 
tongue, of the word demonstration, had always been 
familiar to the children of Columbia; but the new in¬ 
terpretation,- although it wounded the pride of Britain, 
tickled the sons of Columbia ; for, as the world must 
think to this day, so they could only construe it, an oc¬ 
ular demonstration of British folly.) 

4 So it came to pass, that they gathered together 
their army and their navy, even two score and ten 
fighting vessels, carrying therein about twenty thousand 
nieii of war; and the name of the chief captain of the 
navy was Cochrane; and the thief captains of the 
army were Pakenham, Cibbs, and Keane. 




HISTORICAL 


5 And they essayed to go against the city of Net* = 
Orleans, which lieth to the south, on the borders of the 
great river Mississippi, in the state of Louisiana, which 
was covenanted in good faith, to the United States in 
the days, when Jefferson presided as chief governor of 
the land of Columbia. 

6 But it came to pass, that Jackson, when he had ' 
returned from the capture, of Pensacola, where he cork * 
ed up the bottles of iniquity that were ready to be emp- 
ried out upon the men of Columbia, 

7 Had arrived with his army at New-Orleans, he 
began to fortify the place, for he heard it noised abroad 
that the king was bent upon taking the city. 

§ About this time, Jackson communed with Clai¬ 
borne the governor, touching the matter ; and as his 
men of war were but few, the valiant husbandmen of 
Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Mississippi 
Territory, were informed of the evil, and accordingly 
they flocked in multitudes to the banners of Jackson. 

9 Now, as Jackson and Claiborne had counted 
upon the arrival of the strong ships of Britain, so it 
happened, in the latter part of the eighteen hundred and 
fourteenth year, that they'made their appearance, even 
in the twelfth month of the year. 

10 And it was so, that when they had come as nigh 

they could unto the city with their heavy ships, some 

of which carried an hundred of the destroying engines, 
they cast anchor: 

11 And Io, after having passed a certain dangerous 
place called Pass Christian, they prepared their boars, 
containing more than a thousand men, and sent them 


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in great numbers against the boats of Columbia that 
were upon the waters of the lakes about the city.* 

12 Now these small vessels of Columbia, were com¬ 
manded by Thomas, a brave man, whose sir-name was 
Jones, and he gave them hindrance. 

13 Nevertheless, in the space of about two hours* 
Hie boats of Columbia were captured by the vessels of 
Britain, one after another, until they were all taken : 
however, the mariners of Columbia fought well, ami 
gai ied great praise ; and- the loss of the king was 
about three hundred. 

Id Now-the capture of the gun-boats of the United 
States upon these waters encouraged the servants of the 
king, so they began to land their mighty army upon tho 
shores of Columbia in great multitudes from their boats.: 

15 AmT they pitched their tents, and cast up fortifi- 
cations, and prepared to assail the strong hold of Jack- 
so»,the chief captain. 

16 And, that the host of Britain might be discom* 
filed at the onset, Jackson went out with his army 
against them $■ but tho men of war of the king were 
twofold greater than the men of Columbia, so Jackson 
wrs unable to drive them away. 

17 However, he fought bravely against them, and 
slew numbers of them ; albeit, the slain and manned 
of Columbia were about two hundred; so Jackson, 
drew back to his entrenchments, and strengthened him¬ 
self t! ere. 


L ikes Rorgne and Ponchartrain, 
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HISTORICAL 


18 Now this happened on the twenty and third day-' 
of the twefth month, in the eighteen hundred and four¬ 
teenth year. 

19 And it came to pass, on the twenty-seventh day 
of the same month, that a fighting vessel of the United 
States, called the Caroline, commanded by Daniel, was 
set fire to, and blown up, by the heated balls of the 
king’s fiery furnace. 

20 ; On the next day, the whole host of Britain gather- 
ed themselves together, and with their might went 
against the strong hold of Jackson. 

21 But Jackson let the destroying engines loose upon 
the servants of Britain, and compelled them to return 
to their encampments with great loss, even an hundred 
and two score. 

22 Nevertheless^ on the first day of the first month 
of the eighteen hundred and fifteenth year, the men of 
war of Britain came again, and strove to dislodge the 
army of Jackson; but again they were deceived, and 
lost about an hundred men. 

23 At this time there arrived to the aid of Jackson 
about two thousand five hundred valiant men, from the- 
backs-woods of Kentucky. 

24 Disappointed in their expectations, and failing in 
their attempts to discomfit the army of Columbia, the 
captains and the host of Britain arrayed themselves in 
their might to go against the hold of Jackson with their 
whole force. 

25 Aud the morning of the eighth day of the month 
was pitched upon, by the men of Britain, for conquering 
the host of Columbia, and settling themselves in the 
land of liberty. 


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26 So they prepared themselves with their fascines, 
and their scaling leaders, and their bombs, and their 
rockets, and all the weapons of destruction that the in¬ 
genuity of Britain could invent. 

27 After which Pakenham, the chief captain of the 
host of the king, spake to the officers unci the men of 
war that were under him, saying, 

28 Be ye prepared ; for, lo ! to-morrow, at the dawn¬ 
ing of the day, our mighty squadrons shall rush upon 
these Yankees, and destroy them. 

29 Here will we establish ourselves upon the borders 
of Columbia ; and ye shall be officers, tythemen, and 
tax-gatherers, under the king, your master : 

'0 Moreover, a day and a night shall ye plunder and 
riot: and your watch-word shall be, BEAUTY AND 
BOOTY! 



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HISTORICAL 


CIIAP. LIV. 

Grand Baltic of Ncid- Orleans. 


m OW Pukenham, tire chief captain of the host of 
Britain, made an end of addressing the oincers and the 
soldiers of the king : 

2 And it came to pass, in the one thousand eight 
hundred and fifteenth year of the Christain era, in 
the first month of the year, and on the eighth day of 
she month, 

3 ihing on the Sabbath day, (which, as it is written 
in die scriptures, Thou shalt remember and keep 
HOLY,) 

4 That the mighty army of the king, which had 
moved oat of tiie strong ships of Britain, came, in their 
strength, to make conquest of the territory of Colum¬ 
bia, which lieth to the south ; 

5 And to place therein a princely ruler, and all man¬ 
ner of oificers, the servants of the king, even unto a tax- 
gatherer. 

6 So, early in the morning, they appeared before the 
camp of the men of Columbia, even the strong hold 
which Jackson, the chief captain, had fortified. 

7 Their polished steels, of fine workmanship, glit¬ 
tered in the sun, and the. movement of their squadrons 
was as the waving of a wheat-field, when the south 
wind passeth gently over it. 




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8 The fierceness of their coming was as the coming 
of a thousand untamed lions, which move majestically 
over the sandy deserts of Arabia. 

9 And the army rested upon the the plains of Mac 
.Prardies, nigh unto the cypress swamp, being distant 
from the city about fort} r and eight furlongs. 

10 And it was about the rising of the sun, when the 
battering-rams of the king began to utter their noises; 
and the sound thereof was terrible as the roaring of 
lions, or the voice of many thunders. 

11 Moreover, they cast forth bombs, and Congreve 
rockets, weapons of destruction, which were not known 
in the days of Jehoshaphat. 

12 Nevertheless, the soul of Jackson failed him not, 
neither was he dismayed, for he was entrenched round 

cabout; and when be raised his hand, he held every 
•man’s heart therein. 

J3 And Jackson spake, and said unto his captains 
of fifties, and his captains of hundreds, Fear not; we 
defend our lives and our liberty, and in that thing the 
Lord will not forsake hs : 

14 Therefore, let every man be upon his watch ; and 
let the destroying-engines now utter forth their thunders 
in abundance : 

1 j And ye cunning buck-woodsmen, who have known 
mlv to hunt ithe squirrel, the wolf, and the deer, now 
pour forth v .ur strength upon the mighty lion, that we 
may not be overcome. 

10 And as the Muck dust cas: upon a ; • •' in; .1 
instant! 1 , munteth into a fiurao, s" was the ;nt oo.ut 
h tsoai arm of the backwoods oi in . iu. 

17 Now the bre v' men fre a A enricssee und JveR- 

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218 

tucky set their shining rifles to work, and the destroy¬ 
ing engines began to vomit their thunders upon the ser¬ 
vants of the king. 

18 Twice did the host of Britain, in solid columils, 
come against the entrenchments of Jackson, and twice 
he drove them back. 

19 Moreover, Daniel the brave, who had raised up 
defences upon the banks of the river, likewise let his 
engines loose upon them, and shot into the camp of the 
king. 

20 And the men of Britain strove to scale the ram¬ 
parts, and get into the strong hold of Jackson ; but the 
husbandmen drove them back' with great slaughter. 

-21 The fire and the smoke, and the deal’ning noise 
that sounded along the battlements, were tremendous 
for more than the space of two hours, when the dread- 
r ful roarings ceased, for the warriors of the king lied in 
- confusion. 

22 But when the sulphureous vapors arose, behold 
the battle-ground was covered with the slain and the 
wounded officers and soldiers of the kingdom of Great 
Britain 1 

23 Humanity shuddered at the awful scene, whilst 
*s$ie green fields blushed. 

’« 24 Seven hundred of the servants of the king were 
slain 9 and their whole loss that day was two thousand 
' w six hundred valiant men, who had fought upder Wel¬ 
lington, the champion of England. 

25 And Pakenham, the chief captain of the host 
cf Britain, the brother-in-law of Wellington, was 
-amongst the slain ; and they served his body as they 
r ‘tiad served the body of their chief captain at 


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219 


the Baltimore demonstration, preserving it,, in like man¬ 
ner, with the strong waters of Jamaica. 

26 Moreover., one of their chief captains, whose sir- 
name was Gibbs, was also slain, and Keane was sorelv 
wounded : so that ,the charge of the host of Britain 
that remained from the slaughter, fell to a certain man 
whose name was Lambert. 

2 7 The loss of the army of Jackson was only se 
ven slain and seven maimed, a circumstance unparalleL 
ed in the annals of history : howbeit, there were about 
two score slain and wounded upon the other side of the 
river. 

2S Now the whole loss of the king’s army, from the 
time they came against the country of Louisiana until 
their departure, was about five thousand. 

29 After this they were discouraged, for there was 
but a faint hope left for them; so they' departed, and 
went into the strong ships of the king, with their chief 
captain in high sj)irits. 

~30 It is written in the book of Solomon, that a fool 
laughetfi at his own folly : now the men of Britain 
were not inclined to laugh, for they were sorely griev¬ 
ed ; and, but for the fear of the laughter of others, 
would have wept outright. 

31 And Jackson, the chief captain of the host of 
Columbia, gave great praise to the gallant Coffee, and 
Carrol, and Daniel, whose sirname was Patterson, 
and all the valiant men who fought on that glorious day. 

32 Moreover, Jackson was honored with great ho- 
uour by the people throughout the land of Columbia ; 
-even the great Sanhedrim were pleased with him, and 
exalted his name. 



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S 3 And the inhabitants of New-Orleans were great¬ 
ly rejoiced, and carried him through the streets of the 
city above the rest; and the virgins of Columbia strew¬ 
ed his path with roses. 

34 For, lo! Ire had defended them from the vio¬ 
lence of savages, who came in search of beauty and 
booty ! 

And when the wounded of the host of Britain, 
were-brought i nto the city, the fair daughters of Colum¬ 
bia took their fine linen and bound up the wounds of 
the poor fainting officers and soldiers of the king, and 
sat bread and wine before them, to cheer their drooping 
spirits, 

3G Now again were the servants of the king disap¬ 
pointed 5 for, as they were sent upon an evil, as well as 
a foolish errand, they expected not mercy. 

37 And when they saw the goodness that was shower¬ 
ed upon them, they said, Surely ye are angels sent down 
from heaven to heal the wounds inflicted by the folly of 
nations t 

38 And should we again be led on to battle against 
your country, with propositions to violate your happi¬ 
ness, our swords, as by magic, shall be stayed, and drop 
harmless at the feet of virtue and beauty ! 



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-CIIAP. LY. 

Peace. 


0 \V after the fleet of Britain had departed frot» 
New-Orleans in dismay, they committed many other 
depredations of a petty nature. 

2 In the meantime, Cockburn, the wicked,was busi¬ 
ly employed in what his heart delighted; inasmuch as 
be carried the men of Britain against the borders of 
South Carolina and Georgia, and continued his system 
©f robbery. 

3 And here, with the strong ships of Britain, he cap¬ 
tured a town called St. Marys, in the state of Georgia 
and, among other evils, he stole away the sable sons of 
Ethiopia. 

4 And conveyed them to the island of Bermuda, 
of which the king had made him chief governor, and 
sold them, after promising them liberty and free¬ 
dom. 

5 However, it came to pass about this time, that 
the news of peace 4 jeing made between the nations arri¬ 
ved in the land of Columbia. 

6 I or it had happened that the great Sanhedrim in 
tin ir wisJoni, had sent out Henry, sirnamed Clay, and 



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HISTORICAL. 


Russel, two wise men, called, in the vernacular tongtfe, 
commissioners, to join themselves with Bayard and 
Gallatin, who were sent before them, to try and make 
peace : 

7 For the voice of the people of Columbia had spo¬ 
ken peace from the beginning ; they wished war might 
cease, and that the breach between the nations might be 
healed. 

8 In the mean time the king sent some of his wise 
men to meet the wise men of Columbia, at a place 
called Ghent, a town a great way off, in the country of 
Flanders ; 

9 For it came to pass, that the generous mediation 
offered by the emperor of Russia was refused by the 
council of Britain, who had not yielded to the voice of 

accommodation. 

— /\ o, —.U, i • • 

J.U OOj wiiCii tilS ministers of the two nations were 
met, they communed a long time with one another, 
touching the matter; 

11 But the ministers of Britain raised up difficul¬ 
ties, and demanded certain foolish terms, which, in the 
Latin tongue, were written sine qua non , and which 
being translated into the Yankee tongue, might be said 
to mean neck or nothing . 

12 Nevertheless, in process of time, the wise men 
of Britain waved their demands, and agreed to the 
sine qua non given them by the commissioners of Co¬ 
lumbia. 

13 So a treaty of peace was made and signed by the 
commissioners of both parties, on the twenty and 
fourth day of the twelfth month, of the one thousand 
eight hundred and fourteenth year of the Christian ere 


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223 


14 And the treaty was sent to England, and con¬ 
firmed by the Prince Regent, on the twenty-eigth day 
of the same month; for he was tired of the war, and 
saw no hopes of conquering the sons of liberty. 

15 After which it was sent from Britain, across the 
the mighty deep, about three thousand miles, to receive 
the sanction of the free people of Columbia. 

16 And the great Sanhedrin of the people examined 
the treaty, and it was accepted and confirmed by them 
on the seventeenth day of the second month, in the 
eighteen hundred and fifteenth year. 

17 After which it was ratified and signed with the 
hand-writing of James, the chief governor of the land 
of Columbia, and published to the world. 

18 Thus was a stop put to the shedding of human 
blood • and the noise of the destroying engines sunk 
down into silence, and every man returned to his own 
home in peace. 

19 Now when it was known for a certainty that 
peace was rhade between the nations, the people 
throughout the land were rejoiced beyond measure. 

20 And when the news thereof was spread abroad, 
the temples of the Lord were opened, and the people 
of Columbia praised God for his goodness $ yea, they 
thanked him that he had strengthened their arms, and 
delivered them from the paw of the lion. 

21 Thus did the children of Columbia praise die 
Lord in the strength of their youth, and in the days 
of their prosperity $ not waiting till the cold and palsied 
hand of age had made them feeble, and robbed their 
prayers of half their virtue. 

22 Henceforth may the nations of the earth learn 


224 


HISTORICAL 


wisdom : then shall peace become triumphant; and the 
people of Columbia be at rest ; 

23 And, as it is written, their swords may be beaten 
into ploughshares, and their spears turned into pruning*- 
hooks. 

24 But, nevertheless, if this war, like all other wars, 
brought evil upon the sons of men, it demonstrated t 
die world, that the people of Columbia were able to 
defend themselves, single-handed, against one of the 
strongest powers of Europe. 

25 And the mighty kings and potentates of the 
earth shall learn, from- this example of Republican 
patriotism, that the people are the only u legitimate 
sovereigns” of the land of Columbia. 

26 Now the gladness of the hearts of the people 
of Columbia at the sound of peace, was extravagant-; 
inasmuch as it caused them to let loose their destroying 
engines, that were now become harmless, and set in mo¬ 
tion their loud pealing bells, that sounded along the 
splendid arch of heaven. 

2 7 Moreover, they made great fires and illuniina- 
dons in the night time, and light was spread over the 
face of the land ; 

28 And the beauty thereof was as if, from the blue, 
and spangled vault of heaven, it had showered diamonds : 

~0 And all the nations of the earth beheld the glory 
of Columbia. 

END OF THE HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR* 



, READER 


225 


ALGERINE WAR. 

American squadron sails from New-York—arrives in 
the Mediterranean , and captures the Algerine 
vessels—treaty of peace with the Dcy—affairs at 
Tunis and Tripoli^Dccatur's return to America. 


0 \V it came to pass, that while the war raged be¬ 
tween the people of Columbia and the kingdom of Great 
Britain, other evils rose up in the east. 

2 For the people who inhabited the coast of Barbary., 
‘even the Algerines, committed great depredations upon 
the commercefof Columbia; 

S Inasmuch as they captured their merchant vessels, 
and held the men of Columbia who wrought therein in 
eruel bondage. 

4 Now these Algerines, who were barbarians, dwelt 
upon the borders of the great sea called the Mediterra¬ 
nean, in the way journeying towards the Garden of &- 
den , the cradle of die world; even paradise, where stood 
the tree of good and evil, and where the great river 
Euphrates emptieth its waters into the Gulph of Persia^ 
which lieth about six thousand six hundred and sixty-six 
miles to the east of W ashington, the chief city of the 
land ol Columbia. 

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HISTORICAL 


226' 

5 Moreover, the waters of this great sea waslied the 
shores of ancient Palestine, the holy land, the place 
of our forefathers, and the country of Egypt, where 
the children of Israel were held in bondage forty 
years. 

6 Nevertheless, the manifold evils which these 
barbarians committed, by the instigation of Satan with¬ 
in them, or by being led astray by the enemies of Co* 
lumbia, raised the voice of the great Sanhedrim against 
them. 

7 For they had violated the treaty which the people 
of Columbia had made with them in good faith, and set 
if at nought. 

8 Now it had curiously happened, that through 
fear or folly all the nations of the earth had always 
.accustomed themselves to pay tribute to these barba- 
-rians; 

9 But the people of Columbia were the first to break 
the charm, with their brave captains and their destroy¬ 
ing engines, many years ago.* 

10 Howbeit, they were now' again compelled to go 
against them, and strive to bring them to a sense of just¬ 
ice, if not by persuasion, by communications from the 
mouths of their destroying engines. 

11 So it came to pass, on the third day of the third 
month, in the one thousand eight hundred and fifteenth 
year of the Christian era, 


* Alluding to the war against the Barbary power?* 
d^out 180 ^. 



READER. 


12 That the great Sanhedrim of the people sent forth 
a decree, making war upon the people of Algiers, 
who were ruled by a man whom they called the 
Dey. 

13 After which, the fleet of Columbia, which had 
been increased by the folly of Britain, was prepared to 
go against them ; and the gallant Decatur was made 
chief captain thereof. 

14 The number of the strong vessels was about 
half a score, and the names of the mightiest amongst 
them were called the Guerriere, the Macedonian, and 
the Constellation. 

15 Now the name of the first of these tall ships 
was after a strong ship of the king of Britain, which 
was taken by the brave Hull, and burnt upon the wa¬ 
ters ; and the Macedonian was also taken from Britain 
by Stephen,sir-named Decatur; 

16 And when they came into the waters of Europe, 
the men of Britain* gnashed their teeth with vexation, 
neither would they behold them, but they turned their 
backs, for their pride was wounded, whilst the surround^ 
ing nations beheld the fleet with astonishment. 

17 Now it was on the eighteenth day of the fifth 
month, in the same year, in the after part of the day, 
that the fleet of Columbia spread their wings to the 
western breeze, and sailed from the haven of New- 
York j 

18 And, with Decatur, the chief captain, in the 
Guerriere, they bade farewell to the land ol Columbia $ 


At Gibraltar, tyr. 




329 


HISTORICAL 


•and the shouts of the people made the welkin rmg t 
and their blessings followed after them. 

19 And it came to pass, when Decatu with the fleet 
of Columbia, arrived in the waters of the Mediterranean 
sea, being thirty days after he left the land of Columbia, 

20 That he fell in with one of the strongest fighting 
ships of these barbarians, called the Misoda, and he fol¬ 
lowed after her, and in less than the space of half an 
hour, after letting his destroying engines loose upon her;, 
he took her captive, with five hundred men that w r ere in 
her. 

21 And thirty of the barbarians were slain, among 
whom was their chief captain, whom they called Rais 
Hammida ; besides many were wounded, and about 
four hundred prisoners were taken 5 but Decatur had 
not a man killed. 

22 Moreover, on the second day afterwards, the fleet 
of Columbia captured another fighting vessel of the 
A lgerines: 

23 And the slain that were found on board, being 
numbered, were.twenn and three, and the prisoners were 
four score : hovbeit, there were none of the people of 
Columbia even maimed. Thus was the navy of Columbia 

tt iumphant in die east, as it had been in the west. 

24 Now these things happened nigh unto a place 
called Carfhagcna, on die borders of Spain 5 -and when 
the Spaniards beheld the skill and prowess of the peo* 
pie of Columbia, they were amazed: 

25 Immediately after this, Decatur departed, and 
went with his fleet to the port of Algiers, the chief city 
of the barbarians, lying on the borders of Africa. 

26 But when their ruler beheld the star-spangled ban¬ 
ners of Columbia,, he trembled as the aspen-leaf j fur 


READER. 


2L9 

he had heard that his strong vessels were taken by the 
ships of Columbia, and his admiral slain, and he was 
ready to bow clown. 

2 7 And Decatur demanded the men of Columbia 
without ransom, who were held in bondage; and teu 
thousand pieces of silver, for the evils they had commit¬ 
ted against the people of Columbia: and the Dey had 
three hours to answer him yea, or nay. 

28 However, he quickly .agreed to the propositions of 
Decatur i and he paid the money, and signed tiie trea¬ 
ty which Decatur had prepared f&r him, and delivered 
up all the men of Columbia whom he held as slaves. 

29 And the treaty was confirmed at Washington the 
chief city, and signed by James the chief governor, on the 
twenty and sixth day of the twelfth month, in the same 
year: and Decatur generously made a present of the 
ship Misoda to the D<y. 

30 Now it came to pass, after Decatur had settled 
the peace with the Dey of Algiers, according to his wish¬ 
es, that he sailed against another town of the barbarians^, 
called Tunis, 

31 For the governor of this place, who is called the 
Bey, had permitted great evils to he committed against the 
people of Columbia, by the ships of Britain, during the late 
war; inasmuch as they let them come into their waters, 
aad take away the vessels of Columbia that were prizes. 

32 So, for these depredations, the gallant Decatur de¬ 
manded forty thousand pieces of silver, which, after a 
short deliberation, the Boy was fain to grant, lest, perad- 
vent ire the city might, from the force of the destroying 
engines, begin to tumble about his cars. 

u 2 


i30 


HISTORICAL. 


33 From the port of Tunis, Decatur departed and 
went to a place called Tripoli, which lieth to the south 
thereof, where the brave Fat on* fought, and erected the 
banners of Columbia upon the walls of Derue. 

3 4 Now the chief governor of the Tripolitans, whom 
they called the Bashaw, had suffered like evils to be 
done by the British in his dominions which had been 
permitted by the Bey,of Tunis. 

35 So likewise, for these evils Decatur demanded 
thirty thousand pieces of silver, but at first the Ba¬ 
shaw refused to pay it. 

36 However, when he saw the strong ships of Co¬ 
lumbia were about to destroy the town, he paid the 
money, save a little, which he was unable to get, and 
for which Decatur compelled him to release ten captives 
of other nations, whom he held in bondage. 

37 Thus did Decatur, and his brave men in the same 
'year, compel the powers of Barbary to respect the 
banners of Columbia. 

38 Now, having accomplished the object of his ex¬ 
pedition, he returned, encircled with glory, to the land 
of Columbia : 

39 And all the people were rejoiced with great jov, 
and they made feasts for him, and extolled his name. 

40 Moreover, the great Sanhedrim of the people 
honored him for his gallant exploits, and gave unto him 
and his brave officers and mariners, an hundred thou¬ 
sand pieces of silver. 


* Gen. Eaton , a hero of the American war with 
Tripoli^ some years ago. 



CONCLUSION. 


Commodore Bainbridge—Lord Ex mouth's expedi¬ 
tion against Algiers. 


T • 

-B N the mean time, it had come to pass, that lest the 
fleet of Decatur should not be sufficient, the great San¬ 
hedrim sent out after him another strong fleet, coal¬ 
man del by the valiant Bainbridge. 

2 Rut, lo ! when his fleet arrived there, the peace 
had been made, and an end put to the war bv the 

of Decatur : so, after sailing round about the coast, 
Rainbridge returned home again with the fleet of Co¬ 
lumbia. 

3 Now it came to pass, after Decatur bad returned 
in triumph to the land of Columbia, that the lords and 
the counsellors of Rritain became jealous of the fame 
of Columbia, which she had gained in the east, in re¬ 
leasing her people from slavery, as well as those of 
other nations. 

4 Moreover, the barbarians committed depredations 
against the people of Britain, neither did they regard 
their royal cross, as they did the stars of Columbia. 

5 So the king fitted out a mighty fleet to go against 
them ; and the name of tlie chief captain thereof was 



HISTORICAL 


Pellew, to whom the king of Britain had given a new 
name, and called him lord Lxmouth. 

6 Accordingly, as their movements were slow, in 
the fourth month of the one thousand eight hundred and 
sixteenth year of the Christian era, the mighty fleet of 
Britain weighed anchor, and shortly arrived before the 
city of Algiers, as the fleet of Columbia had dond 
many months before them. 

7 And it was so, that the chief captain of Britain, 
i> the name of the king his master, demanded of the 
Dey, the men of Britain, whom he held as slaves, and 
also those of other nations. 

8 But the Dey refused, saying, Ye shall pay unto me 
five hundred pieces of silver for every slave ; then will 
I release them, and they shall be free. 

9 And Exmouth, the lord of Britain, yielded to the 
propositions of the barbarians, and accordingly gave 
unto them the money, even more than twenty horses 
could draw ; 

10 For the number of Christian slaves which Fx- 
mouth bought of the barbarians, was about five hun¬ 
dred. 

11 Therefore, the fleet of Britain succeeded not, as 
did the fleet of Decatur.* 


* Lord Exmouth has since , in a second expedition, 
succeeded in releasing all Christian captives confined 
in Algiers, and in obtaining the ransom money (to a 
very considerable amount) which the Dey had pre¬ 
viously received from England and Naples; 



READER. 


233 


12 Thus, in this tiling, did the lords of Britain 
strive to snatch the laurel from the brow of Colum¬ 
bia ; 

13 But her valiant sons had entwined the wreath of 
glory ; and the scribes of this day shall record it; hi 

^er-living characters; on the pyramid of fame,. 


FINIS; 


fclRLR SOCIETIES AND SUNDAY GCHOC&S; 

It was our intention to have expatiated largely on 
the subjectof Bible Societies — of their importance, and 
•unprecedented extension throughout Europe and 
America : but the limits of this publication prevent us 
from entering far on this subject, luminous as it is $ how- 
over, in time, another opportunity may offer : at present 
the names of the officiating persons in America, by be¬ 
ing inserted, may serve to show the respectability of 
this valuable establishment* which posterity will ad* 
mire. 

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. 

PRESIDENT , 

Hon. Elias Boudinot, l. l. d., of New-Jersey 
VICE-PRESIDENTS , 

Hon. John Jay, Esq. of New-York. 

Matthew Clarkson, Esq. of New-York. 

Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice-President of the United 
States. 

Hon. De Witt Clinton, Governor of the State of 
New-York. 

Hon. Smith Thompson, Chief Justice of the State of 
New-York. 

Hon. John Langdon, of New-Hampshire. 

Hon. Caleb Strong* of Massachusetts. 

Hon. John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut. 

Hon. Andrew Kirkpatrick, Chief Justice of the State 
of New-Jersey. 

Hon. William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the State of 
Pennsylvania. 

Hon. Daniel Murray, of Maryland. 

Joseph Nourse, Esq. Register of the Treasury of the 
United States. 

Hon. John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State of the 
United States. 

Francis S. Key, Esq. District of Columbia. 

Hon. Bushrod Washington, of Virginia, Judge of 
Supreme Court U. S, ' p 


Hon. Charles Gotesworth Pinckney, of Charles 
ton, S. C. 

His Excellency Thomas Worthington, of Ohio. 

John Bolton, Esq. of Georgia. 

Felix Grundy, Esq. of Tennessee. 

SECRETARIES. 

Rev. John Mason, D. D. Secretary for Foreign Cor¬ 
respondence. 

Rev. John B. Romeyn, D. D. Secretary for Domestic 
Correspondence. 

Richard Varick, Esq. Treasurer. 

Mr. John Pintard, Recording Secretary and Account¬ 
ant. 

Mr. John E. Caldwell, Agent. 


An account of the 

number of Bible Societies in 
Vmted States. 

the 

Kevv-Ham p shire. 

1 

Virginia, 

15 

Massachusetts, 

14 

North Carolina, 

2 

Vermont, 

2 

South Carolina, 

4 

Connecticut, 

9 

Georgia, 

• 3 

IS ew-York, 

66 

Ohio, 

11 

New-Jersey, 

16 

Kentucky, 

3 

Pennsylvania, 

12 

r J ennessee, 

2 

Delaware, 

2 

Louisana, 

1 

Maryland, 

2 

Michigan, 

1 

Distiict of Columbia, 1 

JMissouii, 

1 


Total number, 168. 

The number of these auxiliary societies are rapidly 
increasing throughout the world, and their good eiiects 
may easily he anticipated.-These, and the establish¬ 

ment of Sunday Schools in different parts of the Uni¬ 
ted States, lias had the most salutary effects, and eve¬ 
ry good man will no doubt give encouragement to that 
rich source, which opens a field to virtue, and plants 
the ever living seeds of a glorious immortality. • 

JHitrc wisdom dwells, there virtue reigns. 





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